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In the 1989 movie “Say anything”, a famous scene features John Cusack holding aloft a ghettoblaster whilst standing below his girlfriend’s bedroom window. What song is he playing?

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In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel

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Born in 1948, what UK TV face of the 1980s had the birth name “Florence Winsome Leighton”?

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Wincey Willis

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Although he won the French Open doubles title in 1948, which Swedish Tennis player is probably better remembered for being Bjorn Borg’s trainer? Initials L.B. (Lima Bravo) but only the surname required

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Lennart BERGELIN

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The Land Rover name was created in 1948 by the Rover Company for a utilitarian 4 Wheel Drive off-road vehicle. Which Land Rover model was Europe’s best selling 4x4 for five years in a row, after its market introduction in 1997?

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Freelander

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Erling Haaland was named in the 2023 English Premier League team of the year. In which city was he born?

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Leeds

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Who wrote The Worst Witch featuring Mildred Hubble?

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Jill Murphy

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First name Eileen, what actress played the role of Emily Bishop in Coronation Street for 55 years right up to 2016?

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Eileen Derbyshire

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Hard A: Tools that replace spoken voice or normal writing, to aid communication for people with impairments such as cerebral palsy or motor neurone disease, is known as AAC. What does the first A stand for in “A———– and Alternative Communication”?

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Augmentative

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Easy A: Bucks Fizz and Brotherhood of Man are two groups that start with the letter B that won the Eurovison Song Contest for the United Kingdom. Name any of the other four groups that start with a B that represented the UK, but were not as lucky. (No extra points for naming more than one, but feel free to show off).

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Bardo ¦ Blue ¦ Belle and the Devotions ¦ Black Lace

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Easy C: HRT doesn’t only stand for Hormone Replacement Therapy but is also the national broadcaster of which country?

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Croatia

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Hard E: And while we’re on flags, this is the flag of the Basque Country. But what do Basque people call their homeland?

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Euskadi (Euskara is their language)

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Hard F: What do we call this type of metalwork, generally featuring silver and gold threads and beads to create intricate jewellery?

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Filigree

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Easy G: I hope you are enjoying this quiz. In linguistics, what term would we use to describe the suffix “-ing” in “enjoying”?

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Gerund

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Hard H: The cities of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden are found in which German state?

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Hesse

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Hard I: So, if I am flying to an airport with the IATA code ORK, in which country would I be landing?

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Ireland (CORK)

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Hard J: What is the name of this 22 year old Indian cricketer, who aged 17 became the youngest cricketer ever to score a List A double century and has been ripping up the record books ever since?

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Yashasvi JAISWAL

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Hard K: What word is used for the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo? (Indonesians themselves refer to the entire island with this name.)

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Kalimantan

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Hard M: This is the Croatian island of Rab. What was the name of the stonemason who fled this island after being persecuted by Emperor Diocietan because of his Christian beliefs, and set up a new colony elsewhere, in 301 AD, on top of a mountain, to get away from an insane woman who thought he was her husband? He was later canonised, and his Saints Day is celebrated on 3 September.

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Marinus / Marino

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Hard N: The name, please, of this famous French-born American writer of erotica, essayist, and one-time lover of Henry Miller? She also had, it appears, an incestuous relationship (in adulthood) with her father, Cuban pianist father Joaquín, which she hinted at in some of her psychoanalytical essays.

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Anais NIN

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Easy P: What term is occasionally given in the US to an imaginary town where mediocrity and incompetence reign supreme? It was also the title of Fatboy Slim’s fourth and final album.

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Palookaville

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Hard P: What is the name of the island in Guananabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, home to twenty baobab trees and a car-free zone. A current West Ham footballer was brought up there and turned the island’s name into his nickname.

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Paqueta

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Hard Q: Queretaro is one of the states of Mexico. But what is the only other Mexican state to start with the letter Q? Two-word answer please.

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Quintana Roo (home of Cancun)

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Easy R: What name is given in football (soccer) to the technique whereby the kicking leg is crossed behind the back of the standing leg? It in turn has given its name to a dance step in tango.

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Rabona

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Hard T: What name (beginning with T, of course) do we give someone who partakes in Parkour?

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Traceur / Traceuse

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Hard R: Spain recently had a TV show to determine, via a lengthy televised public poll, who was the Greatest Spaniard. Surprisingly beating the likes of bookies' favourites Goya, Cervantes and Queen Isabel I of Castile, who turned out to be the winner? He is known as the father of modern neuroscience, and in 1906 was the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. Both surnames, please.

Ramon y Cajal

Easy U: Known by fans as simply "La U" (the U), this is the badge of one of Chile's most successful fooball clubs, and it even won the Copa Sudamericana in 2011. But what does the U stand for?

Universidad

Hard U: For reasons unknown, this Mr Man character was renamed as Mr Snooty in 2021. However, when he first appeared in 1972 as the eleventh character in the Mr Men series, he had a different name (and in fact was and, I guess, still is the only Mr Man starting with the letter U). What was his name?

Mr Uppity

Hard V: Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, what is the name of this marvellous movie by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, about a nun decides to leave the order after coming into some money?

Viridiana

Easy W: What is the name of this beautiful climbing plant? (Though, be careful not to eat the seeds, which can be highly toxic!)

Wisteria

Hard W: What term is given to when journalists give undeserved credibility to a claim they have not factchecked well enough, and which is then reported on again by other journalists, similar to circular reporting? The term comes from chapter 3 of Winnie-the-Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet walk in circles hunting a creature but are in fact just following their own footsteps.

Woozle Effect

East X: What is the name of the polysaccharide used in food manufacture as a thickening agent as well as a stabiliser to stop ingredients from separating?

Xanthum Gum

Hard Z: Ebola, Smallpox and Rabies are just three of the many diseases that can spread from animals to human. What term do we give such a disease?

Zoonosis / Zoonotic disease

Which author penned 13 Reasons Why?

Jay Asher

First four Series of Unfortunate Events ONLY CONNECT

Bad Beginning Reptile Room Wide Window Miserable Mill

Percy Jackson book series first four ONLY CONNECT

The Lightning Thief The Sea of Monsters The Titan's Curse The Battle of the Labyrinth

Alex Rider book series first four ONLY CONNECT

Stormbreaker Point Blanc Skeleton Key Eagle Strike

First four David Walliams novels in order ONLY CONNECT

The Boy in the Dress Mr Stink Billionaire Boy Gangsta Granny

A book by former British Prime minister, Theresa May published in 2023. The book explores how power is abused by public institutions and those who run them.

The Abuse of Power

Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series first four ONLY CONNECT

Noughts & Crosses Knife Edge Checkmate Double Cross

1898 novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th-century England.

Moonfleet

"For your love" and "Heart full of soul" were both 1960s hit for which band?

Yardbirds

"How many tears" and "Take good care of my baby" were 1960s top ten hits for what singer?

Bobby Vee

"I'm gonna make you love me" and "Get ready" were 1960s Top Ten hits for which R&B vocal group?

The Temptations

"I close my eyes and count to ten" and "In the middle of nowhere" were 1960s top ten hits for which singer?

Dusty Springfield

"Sha la la la lee" and "Lazy Sunday" were 1960s top ten hits for which London-based quartet?

Small Faces

"Message understood" and "Monsieur Dupont" were 1960s hits for which female singer?

Sandie Shaw

"Little Devil" and "Happy birthday sweet sixteen" were 1960s top ten hits for which singer?

Neil Sedaka

"Daydream" and "Summer in the city" were 1960s top ten hits for which US/ Canadian group?

Lovin' Spoonful

"This old heart of mine" and "Behind a painted smile" were 1960s top ten hits for which US group?

The Isley Brothers

Regarded as one of the last teen idols in Britain before The Beatles came along, which man had 1960s top ten hits with "I don't know why" and "Get lost"?

Eden Kane

Brian Epstein was their manager when which band scored 1960s top ten hits with "Do you want to know a secret" and "I'll keep you satisfied"?

Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas

Which woman, one of the biggest selling teenagers in the early years of Rock and Roll, scored 1960s top ten hits with "Sweet nothings" and "Speak to me pretty"?

Brenda Lee

"Game of love" and "Groovy kind of love" were 1960s top ten hits for which UK group?

The Mindbenders

"Game of love" and "Groovy kind of love" were 1960s top ten hits for which UK group?

Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

"A little bit me a little bit you" and "Alternate title" are lesser known 1960s top ten hits by which band?

The Monkees

"Love is like a violin" (his signature song) and "Promises" were 1960s top ten hits for which man?

Ken Dodd

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what two-word term is defined as "a person who works remotely while traveling for leisure, especially when having no fixed, permanent address"?

Digital Nomad

Giancarlo Esposito once said of his Breaking Bad character Gustavo Fring: "Gus is the coolest cucumber that ever walked the Earth. I think about Eddie Olmos way back in BLANK BLANK". The name of what two-word TV show fills the blanks? It ran from 1984 to 1989

Miami Vice

Born in Wales in 1841, which well known figure of Victorian times was originally named John Rowlands? As a boy this person entered the workhouse around the age of five but his fortunes turned when he was eventually adopted by a wealthy trader

Henry Morton Stanley

In which sport, played with paddles, must players allow both the service and the return of service to bounce before returning? Another rule is that players cannot volley in the part of the court known as the kitchen

Pickleball

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 8-letter word is defined as "an athlete, usually a pitcher or boxer, who is right-handed or competes as a right-hander"?

Northpaw

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 7-letter word beginning with "C" is "the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive, or have it both ways"?

Cakeism

The small antechamber off the Sistine Chapel where a newly elected pope changes into his papal cassock for the first time is known as the "Room of" what? This 5-letter word was also the name of the biggest selling song of 1965 in the UK

Room of TEARS

What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: "Mrs BLANK Bliss" by Stanley Elkin? This 3-letter word wa also the first name of Postman Pat's handyman friend

Ted

In the Catholic Church, what name is given to the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance?

Saint LONGINUS

Which country has only two land borders - one with Guatemala and one with Honduras?

El Salvador

The actress Krysten Ritter, who played Jesse Pinkman's apartment manager and girlfriend in Breaking Bad, is an avid fan of which hobby? The husband of Dustin Lance Black has probably been the highest profile fan of this hobby in recent years

Knitting

The Men's national team from which country reached the Olympic volleyball gold medal match on every occasion from 2004 to 2016?

Brazil

Named after a New Testament character, in the Catholic Church what word refers to the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things?

Simony

What ball game is the national sport of Malaysia? Syahir Rodsi is considered one of the best players ever

Sepak Takraw

What man, the lead singer of Foreigner, recorded "Lost in the Shadows" for the soundtrack of "The Lost Boys"?

Lou Gramm

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 12-letter word is defined as "a marketing technique involving intentional homoeroticism or suggestions of LGBTQ+ themes intended to draw in an LGBTQ+ audience"?

Queerbaiting

How high is the goal ring in the game of Netball?

10 foot

Which country has only two land borders - one with Guinea and one with Senegal?

Guinea Bissau

Joel Pott, who co-wrote both 'Budapest' and 'Shotgun' with George Ezra, was the lead singer of which band, whose biggest UK hit was the 2005 single 'Wires'?

Athlete

What does it mean if the Pope appoints a Cardinal "in pectore"?

Something done in secret

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what "P" is "a person who gains a large following on social media by posting entertaining images or videos of their cat, dog, or other animal"?

Petfluencer

What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: "BLANK dies" by Paul Murray? A TV character with this name appeared in a show which was filmed at Waratah National Park in the 1960s

Skippy

The first international game of Handball was played in 1925 between Belgium and which other country? his country won the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup

Germany

What was the name of Ernest Shackleton's ship which was re-discovered at the bottom of the Weddell sea in 2022? 107 years after it sank it is said to be in "a brilliant state of preservation"

Endurance

Bob Odenkirk was Saul Goodman, a crooked strip mall lawyer in Breaking Bad. Odenkirk drew inspiration for Goodman from which film producer, the one-time head of Paramount and husband of Ali McGraw?

Bob Evans

What name is given to the axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft traditionally associated with the Swiss Guard?

Halberd

Which country has only tow land borders - one with Cameroon and one with Gabon?

Equatorial Guinea

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 11-letter adjective is defined as "becoming more robust when exposed to stressors, uncertainty, or risk"? It is derived from the name of a Nassim Nicholas Taleb book

Antifragile

Which country has only three land borders, those being Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia?

Malawi

In the name of the popular Dutch sport of Korfball, what does the word "Korf" mean?

Basket

What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: "The BLANK of Love and Techno" by Anthony Marra? This 4-letter word is associated with Simeon I of Bulgaria

Tsar

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 4-letter word is "a coordinated display, including large banners, flags, and sometimes signs or cards, executed cooperatively or performed in unison by the most fervent supporters and ultra fans in a stadium"?

Tifo

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 9-letter word is defined as "a person who lives with another in a life partnership, sometimes engaged with no planned wedding date, sometimes with no intention of ever marrying"?

Nearlywed

What word is missing from the name of this National Book critics award for fiction nominee: "Billy BLANK" by E.L. Doctorow? This is also the name of a large town in West Lothian, the birthplace of Sir James Young Simpson

Billy BATHGATE

In 1970 Pope Paul VI changed the rules for electing new popes so that only Cardinals under what age were allowed to vote?

80

The word "conclave" comes from the Latin "Cum clavus" which means "with a" what? The comedian who play's Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon might have an interest in these things

Key

What is the name of the traditional three-peaked cap worn by Christian clergy, especially in the Roman Catholic church?

Biretta

Added to the dictionary in 2023, according to Dictionary.com what 11-letter word is defined as "an instance or practice of acknowledging and promoting the civil liberties of the LGBTQ+ community, but superficially, as a ploy to divert attention from allegiances and activities that are in fact hostile to such liberties"?

Pinkwashing

In which game, combining the gameplay of golf and football, do players kick a six inch rubber ball, with the aim of getting it into a bowl in the smallest number of shots?

Codeball (Footgolf uses a football)

As the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign heated up Nigel Farage came to be more associated with the Leave.EU team. That campaign was co founded by which Bristol based businessman and UKIP donor?

Arron Banks

Oscar Winners: Billy Eilish recently became the youngest person to win two Oscars for Best Original Song, but she’s not the first female to sing two winning tunes. One example was in 1980 and 1983. But who sung the winning songs in those years?

Irene Cara

Featured Artists: Who was the featured vocalist on Artful Dodger’s Re-Rewind follow up track Movin’ Too Fast?

Romina Johnson

Trivia: Thesaurus alert! Aqua, R Kelly, Cher and Johnny Hates Jazz have all composed canticles of regret regarding transtemporal manipulation. What is the recurring refrain in their compositions?

They all wanted to Turn Back Time

Trivia: One Hit Wonder Kon Kan used lots of samples, mostly Lynn Anderson’s song Rose Garden in their hit from 1988. Can you name that hit?

I Beg Your Pardon

The Wanted song "Walks like ______" whcih singer?

Rihanna

Nautical Theme: What was the name of the Human League comeback album that contained the hits Tell Me When in 1994 and One Man In My Heart in 1995?

Octopus

Nautical Theme: What is the name of the Limp Bizkit album that contains the huge #1 hit single Rollin’?

Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavoured Water

Nautical Theme: What song did Aaliyah release as follow up her UK number 1 More Than A Woman?

Rock the Boat

Nautical Theme: What is the name of Duffy’s album that spawned the songs Mercy and Warwick Avenue?

Rockferry

Nautical Theme: Cher’s number 1 The Shoop Shoop Song came from which one of her films, also starring Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci?

Mermaids

Nautical Theme: Which David Gray song ends with him whistling the chorus?

Sail Away

Featured Artists: This is Song For Mutya, credited to Mutya Buena of Sugababes fame, but who are the featured dance act on the track?

Groove Armada

A pioneering photographer (pictured) of the 19th Century, known for her portraits of Sir John Herschel and Charles Darwin. She was born in Calcutta in 1815 to well-to-do parents, her father an official of the East India Company and her mother descended from French aristocracy.

Julia Margaret Cameron

What variety of thick-skinned oranges are characterized by growth of a second fruit at the apex, giving them the appearance of a certain part of human anatomy?

Navel

Chabbal Waddi is the highest point in which African Country at 2419m? Near this country's border with Cameroon, it is part of the Bamenda-Alantika-Mandara mountain chain.

Nigeria

What word describes 1) An English Musician and record producer of Madonna's Ray of Light 2) The socket which houses the eyeball 3) A brand of sugar free chewing gum produced by Wrigleys

Orbit (William is the producer)

Known for its romantic florally embossed gowns which British fashion house was opened in 2005 by a Canadian-born former intern of Vivienne Westwood with the surname Moralıoğlu? It collaborated with H&M on a 2017 flowery, lace-rich collection, and Lily James wore this label to the 2024 Met Ball.

Erdem

Which Soviet Olympic gymnast won 14 individual Olympic medals and 4 team medals between 1956 and 1964? She is the only gymnast to hold 9 Olympic gold medals.

Larisa LATYNINA

What mythological figure links 1) A choreographic work of George Balanchine first performed to Stravinsky in 1929, featuring the protagonist (Pictured in a modern production) and three Muses. 2)A NASA space programme whose last flight was in December 1972?

Apollo

In which religion is the Chinvat bridge, guarded by two four-eyed dogs, the sifting bridge that all souls must cross upon death? This religion's funeral rites are now endangered by declining vulture populations in India, Iran and Pakistan.

Zoroastrianism

Son of Aethelred the Unready and his first wife, Aelgifu of York, who was King of England between 23rd April and 30 November 1016? He led the English at the battle of Assandun to defeat against the Danish Army of Canute the Great in October 1016, a month before his death, possibly on the privy, though this disputed.

Edmund Ironside accept Edmund II

Concerning a Druid priestess of the Gauls who falls for a Roman soldier, which 1831 Opera by Vincenzo Bellini features the famous Bel Canto aria and prayer Casta Diva? The title role was performed 89 times by Maria Callas from 1948.

Norma

Guinean recording artist Mory Kante released which 1988 world music international smash hit written in Mandinka, remixed into an "Afro Acid Mix" specially for the UK?

Ye ke Ye ke

Which captain of the Washington Capitals Ice Hockey team is known as "the Great Eight" in reference to his jersey number? He is second to only Wayne Gretzky for all-time goal scoring.

Ovechkin (Alexander Mikhailovich)

An Australian surfer, the winner of 8 women's WSL World Tour World Championship titles between 2007 and 2022

Stephanie Gilmore

Discovered on Instagram by make-up queen Pat McGrath, which British-born American "plus-size" model, Model of the Year in 2023, made her breakthrough in the Autumn /Winter 2020 season, walking for Fendi and Alexander McQueen?

Elsesser (Paloma)

What surname links 1) An Indian-American neuroscientist known for his creation of the mirror box to treat phantom limb pain 2) an Indian physicist who devised a plot (pictured) of energetically permissable peptide configurations which predicts alpha helices and beta sheets. He proposed the triple helical model for the structure of collagen.

Ramachandran (Vilayanur Subramanian (VS) and Gopalasamudram Narayanan (GN))

Which tennis star caused controversy with her Teddy Tinling-designed tennis outfit at Wimbledon 1949, as the short skirt of the dress exposed her frilly lace knickers? Accused of "bringing vulgarity and sin into tennis" by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club, her attire sparked a debate in Parliament.

Gussie MORAN

What links 1) a large Berber ethnic group that inhabit the Sahara in an area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso 2) A luxury mid-size SUV model (pictured) launched by Volkswagen in 2002.

Tuareg

In which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera of 1882 has the title character commited the sin of marrying a mortal, eventually revealed to be the Lord Chancellor of the House of Lords, leading to her banishment from Fairyland?

Iolanthe

Which small inland sea of Turkey connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea via the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits?

Marmara

First released in 2019 and a spin-off of the Titanfall series, which battle royale-hero shooter video game features the characters Bangalore, Bloodhound, Caustic, Mirage and Wraith?

Apex Legends

Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by which British poet and librarian, as a cover for writing the novella Trouble at Willow Gables, featuring Hillary Russell who seduces the school cricket captain Mary Beech? He turned down the position of Poet Laureate in 1984 following Sir John Betjeman's death.

Philip Larkin

The centre of an Umbrian DOC known for its white wines made of Grechetto and Trebbiano grapes, which Italian commune, the site of the historic well the Pozzo di San Patrizio, was the refuge of Pope Clement VII during the 1527 sack of Rome?

Orvieto

A site of stress fractures in the foot, which bone, forming part of the longitudinal and transverse arches of the foot, articulates with the talus, the cuboid and the three cuneiform bones? Its Latin name derives from its resemblance to a small ship

Navicular

From a French verb meaning "to lean", what name describes a high arabesque in ballet in which the working leg is extended upwards towards a standing split (Picture)?

Penche

Which 1908 German Nobel Prize-winning Physician and immunologist discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), which became the first effective treatment for Syphilis? He gives his name to a tick-borne Rickettsial disease-causing bacterium.

Paul Ehrlich

Which American athlete nicknamed "The Black Gazelle", won 1960 Summer Olympic Gold medals in Rome in the women's 100m, 200m and 4x100m sprint relay?

Wilma Rudolph

A professor of Economics, who was the first and only female prime minister of Turkey from 1993-1996 as leader of the True Path Party?

Tansu Çiller

Which French poet (1821-1867) and author of Les Fleurs du Mal was the first to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe for a French audience?

Charles Baudelaire

What nine letter term describes 1) A group of amphibian embryo cells which are responsible for the induction of neural tissues, for which German embryologist Hilde Mangold won her PhD supervisor Hans Spemann the 1935 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. 2) A "Personal" time management product sold by Filofax.

Organiser

Which archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, a union territory of India, has its capital at Port Blair?

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Which brand of dental local anaesthetic was the Eels using "for the soul" in their 1996 single from the debut album Beautiful Freak? I will also accept the generic name

Novocaine

Equipped with hyperextensible killing claws and feathers, which winged, sharp toothed, lizard-tailed dinosaur of the late Jurassic period was first discovered near Solfhofen in Germany in the early 1860's?

Archaeopteryx

Used by Painters such as Frank Auerbach and Chaim Soutine (picture), which artistic technique involves thick, undiluted paint, applied so it stands out from the canvas to create texture?

Impasto

What invertebrate phylum includes starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers?

Echinodermata

Playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, which Italian model and actress made her breakthrough appearance in John Huston's Beat the Devil in 1953? Once dubbed The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, in her second career as a photojournalist she got exclusive access to Fidel Castro for 12 days for a 1974 interview.

Gina Lollobrigida

An organic chemist who revolutionised soap and candle manufacture through his analysis of long chain fatty acids, which French polymath (1786-1889 yes thats correct!) showed that diabetic individuals secreted glucose in their urine, but also laid the foundations for Neo-impressionism and Orphism with his work on colour theory, as head of the Gobelin dye factory, in The Laws of Contrast of Colour

Michel Chevreul

Which English philosopher and student of Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced the term consequentiality in her 1958 article Modern Moral Philosophy? Her 1957 work Intention focused on the character of human action and will.

Elizabeth Anscombe

Nicknamed "the Monster", which Japanese Professional Boxer was the undisputed bantamweight World champion between 2019 and 2023 but has also been been a Champion at super bantamweight and both light flyweight and super flyweight? He retained his super bantamweight titles on 6th May 2024 when he beat Luis Nery convincingly.

Naoya INOUE

Whilst her first marriage to Henry V's brother allied her to the House of Lancaster, which Luxembourg Princess later married Richard Woodville, a Yorkist convert, and bore Elizabeth, the future Queen Consort of Edward IV? The Lady of the Rivers, a 2011 historical novel by the author in 2e, is narrated by this highly influential woman, who was maliciously accused of Witchcraft by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, but saved by her Royal connections.

Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Which US President signed the Pendleton Civil Service reform act into law in 1883, which required civil servants to be selected, based on merit, through an examination?

Chester A Arthur

One of the "Harvard Computers" aka "Edward Pickering's Harem", which astronomer determined the orbit of the binary star Zeta Ursae Majoris (Mizar A) only to be uncredited by Pickering in 1889 for both this and her own discovery of another binary star Beta Aurigae (Menkalinan)? She was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1943 for her contributions to star classification lauded and utilised by Ejnar Hertzsprung

Antonia Maury

With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.

Annie Jump CANNON

Paulina Poriskova, Elizabeth Hurley and Manushi Chhillar are or have been faces of which beauty brand whose classic products include the perfumes White Linen, Beautiful and Cinnabar?

Estee Lauder

Bordering Tibet in the North and Northeast, Bhutan to the East and Nepal to the west, which Northeast Indian state has Gangtok, a popular Buddhist pilgrimage site, as its State Capital?

Sikkim

Following a successful FA-cup winning stint at Arsenal, which Irish former footballer, coach and pundit had a successful stint at Juventus from 1980-82, winning two Serie A titles? Having turned down a chance to meet Luciano Pavarotti at a Juventus reception, he later met him as manager of Celtic and conceded that Pavarotti "knew his football".

Liam Brady

What name is given to a a hair dyeing technique where the hair is darker from roots to midshaft, and then lighter from the midshaft to the ends? This word is also the name of a trick-taking 17th century card game that originated in Spain.

Ombre

In Greek mythology, who was the horrid sister of Stheno and Euryale?

Medusa

What term is used for a naturally magnetized piece of the mineral magnetite?

Lodestone

Which car company produced a compact roadster called the SLC-Class?

Mercedes Benz

What was the only thing left after the battle of the Kilkenny Cats?

Their Tails

Who wrote the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate in 1913, 12 years before he introduced Charlie Chan in the 1925 novel The House Without a Key?

Earl Derr BIGGERS

British track and field athlete Mary Rand won Olympic gold in 1964 in which event while breaking the world record?

Long jump

Elizabeth I was excommunicated by which pope in the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis?

Pope Pius V

Expo ’98 was the World’s Fair held in which European capital city?

Lisbon

Which former friend of Falstaff is hanged in Shakespeare’s Henry V for looting from a church?

Bardolph

Which filmmaker was sued in 1936 for plagiarizing Rene Clair's 1931 film comedy A nous la liberte?

Charlie Chaplin

Which 10-year-old boy leads the crew of cartoon search and rescue dogs called the PAW Patrol?

Ryder

Which horse was the winner in a 3-horse photo finish at the 2024 Kentucky Derby?

Mystik Dan

What is the unit of dynamic viscosity used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units?

Poise

On April Fools Day in 2024, sriracha chili sauce maker Lee Kum Kee announced which new product containing sriracha?

Toothpaste

What man has been inaugurated as just the fourth prime minister of Singapore since the country's independence in 1965?

Lawrence Wong

Four Prime Ministers of Singapore in 2024 ONLY CONNECT

LEE Kuan Yew GOH Chok Tong LEE Hsien Loong Lawrence WONG

OpenAI has announced its new ChatGPT model, GPT-4o. What does the "o" stand for?

OMNI

Filipino demonstrators protested over what disputed atoll against dozens of Chinese coast guard and militia ships guarding the area? It is known as Minzhu Jiao ("Democracy Reef") in Mandarin and Panatag Shoal ("Serene Sandback") in Filipino.

SCARBOROUGH SHOAL

President Salome Zurabishvili of Georgia has vetoed what controversial law that would require NGOs and media groups that receive 20% of their funding from abroad to register as what?

FOREIGN AGENTS

What Denver Nuggets big man has won the NBA MVP award for a third time?

NIKOLA JOKIC is the NBA MVP once more, making him the fifth player to win the award three times.

Ousman Sonko, the former interior minister of what African country, was convicted by a Swiss court of crimes against humanity? Sonko is the highest-ranking official to be convicted by a European court under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

THE GAMBIA (Sonko served under Gambia's president/dictator Yahya Jammeh 1996-2016)

Mahamat Deby was confirmed as the winner in the disputed presidential election of what African country, whose previous president was killed in 2021? 2024

Chad (Idriss Deby was his dad who died in 2021)

What A-list actor will be making his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck? 2024

George Clooney

Britney Spears 2023 memoir title

The Woman In Me

What South Dakota governor’s campaign memoir No Going Back has cratered her chances of securing the vice presidential nomination after a story about shooting her dog gained national attention?

KRISTI NOEM

Only Say Good Things: Surviving ______ and Finding Myself is a memoir by Crystal Hefner. What location fills in the blank?

Playboy

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography went to Cristina Rivera Garza about whose “invincible summer”?

LILIANA’S INVINCIBLE SUMMER: A SISTER’S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE. Cristiana’s sister, Liliana, was murdered in 1990 in Mexico. The culprit was almost certainly Liliana’s boyfriend at the time, one Ángel González Ramos.

Who wrote 2024 memoir The House of Hidden Meanings?

Ru Paul

Who wrote 2024 memoir A Very Private School?

Charles Spencer (Diana brother)

Ariana Grande 7th album released in 2024?

Eternal Sunshine

What is the title of Billie Eilish’s third studio album, her follow-up to 2021’s Happier Than Ever?

Hit Me Hard and Soft

What singer-songwriter, whose aesthetic is heavily influenced by drag queen campiness, saw a surge in popularity this year with her hit song “Good Luck, Babe!”?

Chappell Roan

Which Kendrick Lamar song, part of the Kendrick vs Drake beef of 2024, has topped the Billboard charts at No. 1?

NOT LIKE US

Which is London’s oldest professional football club?

Fulham

Featuring in a list of the top 50 most visited websites in the world in March 2024, and originally founded by Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame, which hosting service enables communities of enthusiasts to share information on a variety of entertainment topics?

Fandom

First patented in 1931, what is the formal name for an ant farm?

Formicarium

Possibly based on a Scandinavian word, which expression in English might mean a piece of nonsense or idle talk, or an attempt at deception?

Flimflam

Referring to an item first adopted as an emblem by the French Canadians along the Saint Lawrence River in the early 1700s, what is the name of a gold bullion coin produced annually by the Royal Canadian Mint?

Maple Leaf

Derived from a Danish word meaning a pair of outstretched arms, which unit of measurement equivalent to 1.8288 metres is still used by the U.S. Hydrographic Office to measure water depths in excess of 30 feet?

Fathom

Which word derived from Latin means an employee who does all kinds of work?

Factotum

Whose official residence is Winfield House in Regent's Park, which has the largest private garden in London after Buckingham Palace?

The United States Ambassador to the UK

In the French appellation d'origine contrôlée system for the wine trade, what is the meaning of the expression “Vins de primeur”, of which the best-known example is probably Beaujolais Nouveau?

Wines which are permitted to be sold in the same year that they are harvested

For which 1981 romantic comedy did Sir John Gielgud receive his only Oscar, playing a butler?

Arthur

Why is Andy Murray’s 2014 autobiography titled “Seventy-Seven”?

77 years since Fred Perry’s Wimbledon win in 1936 to 2013

In the decorating world, which products are now principally made from Benzyl alcohol, since the use of Dichloromethane was banned on health grounds in 2010?

Paint Strippers

Which British institution has a nickname derived from its perceived prudish and puritanical approach in the 1950s and 1960s?

Auntie BBC

Which long running farce which ran in the West End from 1971 until 1987 starred in the lead role Michael Crawford, David Jason and Andrew Sachs (and Ronnie Corbett in the 1973 film) and is the longest running comedy in West End history?

No Sex Please, We're British

What name is given to the mix of chemicals used in the final step in the photographic processing of film to stabilise the image?

Fixer

What role did Therese Coffey play in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election?

Liz Truss Campaign Manager

If 10 corresponds with 78 and 12 with 33, what would go with 7?

45 (inches to RPM on shellac/vinyl records)

Which is the most common surname in France, also shared by a British TV celebrity chef, the frontman for a band formed at University College London in 1997 and the co-founder of a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars?

Martin – James the chef, Chris the frontman and Lionel the car man

Hosts of the Sports Agent podcast

Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman

The supporters of which Championship club use the hashtag #MOT, taken from a 1972 team song?

Leeds United (it stands for Marching On Together)

What type of domestic animal is a Nebelung? German for creature of the mist.

Cat

Which Danish football club was established in 1992 following the merger of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and Boldklubben 1903?

FC Copenhagen

On a piano, which foot would you use to operate the soft pedal?

Left

In which United Arab Emirates city can you visit the Souk Al Bahar (the "sailor's market")?

Dubai

What word can describe the circle around a lacrosse goal, an area of damage on a surfboard, or a line marked on a cricket pitch?

Crease

Pundamilia is the Swahili word for which animal?

Zebra

Which country lies to the north of Australia across the Arafura Sea?

Indonesia

Which sea name is therefore from the indigenous name for "the people of mountains" in the Moluccas (part of Indonesia) as identified by Dutch Lieutenants Kolff and Modera in the 1830's? Others say a tribe of Portuguese origins.

Arafura Sea

Which song from 1990 features the lines "I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, Lookin' for the love getaway"?

Love Shack

In which racket sport do teams compete for the Thomas Cup?

Badminton

Between 1978 and 2002, Daniel arap Moi served as president of which African country?

Kenya

In reference to vacuum cleaner filters, what does HEPA stand for?

High-Efficiency Particulate Air

In which Netherlands city does the John Frost Bridge cross over the river Rhine?

Arnhem

Known for their 1960 hit single Walk - Don't Run, Don Wilson and Bob Bogle were the principal members of which American instrumental musical group?

The Ventures

Which Egyptian city is home to the Mummification Museum?

Luxor

Which word for a blend of young salad greens derives its name from the Occitan word for "mixture"?

Mesclun

Which American dance band had a 1983 hit with Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life?

Indeep

Who was the U.S. president in the year that Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were born?

Harry S Truman 1946

The annual Lord of Miracles procession takes place every October in which South American country?

Lima, Peru

Which Italian printer was appointed Director of Royal Typography of Parma in 1768, and has a font named after him?

Giambattista Bodoni

Which Egyptian mathematician wrote the 2nd-century astronomical manual The Almagest?

Ptolemy

Which conflict of 1547 was the last pitched battle between English and Scottish armies?

Battle of Pinkie

Toecutter, the leader of The Acolytes motorcycle gang, is a main character in which 1979 Australian film?

Mad Max

What colour does litmus paper turn when exposed to an alkaline or base?

Blue

Analogous to a cube having 6 faces made of squares, what 3 dimensional shape has 6 faces that are all parallelograms?

Parallelepiped

Launched in 1958, what was the name of the first satellite launched by the United States in response to the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2 satellites?

Explorer I

Caused by infections, allergies or skin conditions, 'Cheilitis' is the swelling or inflammation of which facial body part?

Lips

A bird of prey also known as the Pern, which summer migrant to Europe is a specialist feeder on the larvae of wasps, hornets and bees? Despite its name it is more related to Kites.

Honey Buzzard

Found in the desert landscapes of Namibia and the Northern Cape of South Africa, which tall succulents are named after their hollowed branches being used to carry arrows by the indigenous San people? (Stanley Kubrick was alleged to illegally cut down a bunch of these whilst making 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Quiver Tree

(V) This city in Karelia was once the second-largest city in Finland, but the Soviet Union annexed it following the Winter War. It remains part of Russia today.

Vyborg

(V) In the Indian state of Karnataka, you can visit the ruins of which city, which in the 1500's AD was probably the second most populous city on Earth? In those days, this city was the capital of a powerful empire that controlled most of southern India.

Vijaynagara

(V) This Adriatic seaport is the third-largest city in Alabania. The independence of Albania was declared here in 1912.

Vlore

(V) This Spanish university town, the capital of Castille and Leon, is located on the Pisuerga River, just upstream of where it flows into the larger Duoro. Some of northern Spain's most famous and most productive wine growing regions are nearby in the Duoro valley.

Valladolid

(W) This city in southern Ireland, on the river Suir, is famous around the world for the high-quality crystal it produces. A famous crystal-making company is named for this city.

Waterford

(V) The first city founded by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico was this coastal city located on the Gulf of Mexico about 250 miles / 400 km east of Mexico City. Its location in coastal lowlands made it a notoriously disease-ridden city before the advent of modern medicine and a condition known as "el vomito" plagued soldiers who were stationed at its fortress of San Juan de Ulua (pictured).

Veracruz

(W) The Atlantic coast of Namibia is famously inhospitable to life of any kind and has earned the nickname "Skeleton Coast" because of the danger it poses for sailors. The only safe harbor on Namibia's coast is which second-largest city of Namibia, the nation's only major port?

Walvis Bay

(U) Gilgamesh, the hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was the king of which Sumerian city? This city lends its name to a period of Sumerian history from around 4000 to 3100 BC that saw the emergence of urbanization and writing in the region.

Uruk

(Y) This Siberian city on the Lena River is the largest city in the world built on top of permafrost. It is the capital of Russia's Sakha Republic.

Yakutsk

(U) This city in western Ukraine is the capital of the Zakarpattia Oblast. As one of the largest cities in the region known as Subcarpathaian Ruthenia, Transcarpathia, or Kárpátalja, it was part of Hungary before World War I, part of Czechoslovakia between the world wars, and part of the Soviet Union after World War II.

Uzhgorod

(U) In northern Tunisia, you can find the ruins of which Carthaginian city, an important ally of Carthage in all three Punic Wars? There is also a city with this name in the US state of New York: fans of the "Steamed Hams" meme will recognize the American city with this name as the home town of the Simpsons character Superintendant Chalmers. Steamed Hams are unheard of there.

Utica

(V) This historic Swedish city, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League, is the capital of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

Visby

(V) This Russian city of nearly 300,000 people in the Caucauses is the capital of North Ossetia. The majority of this city's inhabitants are ethnic Ossetians who speak a language more closely related to Persian than to Russian.

Vladikavkaz

(Z) This Chinese city of 12 million people is the capital of Henan Province. Foxconn has its largest factory in this city, leading to its nickname of "iPhone City".

Zhengzhou

(U) The Pyramid of the Magician (pictured) is one of the major landmarks of which Mayan city located on the Yucatan Peninsula? It is significantly older than the more famous site of Chichen Itza nearby.

Uxmal

(Z) This historic Croatian city is located on the Dalmatian coast, north of Split but south of Riejka. Its Church of St. Donatus (pictured) dates to the 9th century AD and is located on its old Roman Forum.

Zadar

(U) One of the major stops on the Trans-Siberian Railway is which capital city of Russia's Republic of Buryatia? This city is located just south of Lake Baikal.

Ulan-Ude

(U) Fans of geography likely know that Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States, located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean near the northernmost point in Alaska. But do you know the name of Barrow in the native Inuit language? In 2016, the city actually adopted this native name as its official legal name.

Utqiagvik

(W) From 1871 - 2005, a company called the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM in both German and French) manufactured most of the world's mountain railway equipment. That company was located in which sixth-largest city in Switzerland. Today, it is one of Switzerland's main tech hubs.

Winterthur

(W) This German city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is perhaps best known for its suspension monorail, which opened in 1901 and has delighted public transit enthusiasts and railfans ever since. Many tourists come here just to ride this delightful gadgetbahn and some even refer to ALL suspension monorails by this city's name.

Wuppertal

(Z) This ski town in the Tatras mountains of southern Poland is a popular day trip from Krakow.

Zakopane

(U) This town of 19,000 people in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa is perhaps most notable as the site of the final battle of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. During that war, it served as the capital of the Zulu king Cetshwayo (pictured) as he led his people against the British.

Ulundi

(V) This historic French city located just south of Lyon on the Rhone dates back to Roman times and was an important city in Provence in medieval times as well. In French, its name is identical to that of another, much more famous city in this quiz, while in English the names differ only by one letter.

Vienne

(V) This South African city in Gauteng Province is perhaps best known for being the site of the 1902 treaty that ended the Second Boer War and made the Transvaal and the Orange Free State colonies of Great Britain.

Vereeniging

What was the title of the 1956 film based on a biography of the same name which starred Kenneth More as Flight Cadet (later Group Captain) Douglas Bader?

Reach for the Sky

Which 1971 song takes its title from an ancient Arabic legend about the unhappy love of a young man, and is said to have been inspired by Eric Clapton’s secret love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison?

Layla

Originating from Royal Navy slang for a meal of pease pudding, dried peas boiled in a cloth bag, and later coming to mean someone who is given menial tasks, what was Group Captain Douglas Bader’s RAF call sign?

Dogsbody

An advertisement, appropriately, for which organisation broke the world record for the world’s smallest ad in the year 2000, when scientists at The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford fitted a piece of film no bigger than the width of a human hair to the knee of a bee.

Guinness World Records launching its new website

Which 1980 heavy metal album is the highest selling album by a group of all time, despite never making it to number 1 in the US?

Back in Black by AC/DC

Which widely adulterated product derived from the flowers of the Broom Tea Tree native to Australasia sells more by weight in the UK alone (1,800 tonnes) than its total annual production (1,700 tonnes)?

Manuka Honey

Which hotel is located at the end of Lonely Street?

Heartbreak Hotel

Which rock and roll bassist in 1993 became the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law and the step grandfather of his former wife when his son by a previous marriage married his recently ex-wife’s mother?

Bill Wyman

What is the epitaph on the tombstone of naval historian C Northcote Parkinson, who wrote a book called In-Laws and Outlaws in 1962?

work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

In the old joke, “what is the difference between in-laws and outlaws”, what is the punchline?

Outlaws are wanted

Don Johnson, Steven Bauer and Antonio Banderas were all sons-in-law of The Birds actress Tippi Hedren through their marriage to which actress, Hedren’s daughter, who won a Best Actress nomination for Working Girl in 1988?

Melanie Griffiths

Round 4 is another collection of esoteric general knowledge. Which is the lowest four-digit prime number and also the largest number which, when written in Roman numerals, makes a valid Scrabble word?

1009 (MIX)

Which creature which has the Latin name Struthio Camelus is not a camel at all, but the bird which causes more deaths in humans than any other bird on the planet?

Ostrich

Which musical film which was number one at the UK box office for three weeks in 2022 contains a number titled “Telly” sung by the title character’s father, the first line of which is “All I know I learned from telly”?

Matilda The Musical

Which two-word phrase which means “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” was Oxford Languages’ word of the year in 2022?

Goblin Mode

Which name for an inflammatory disease of the lungs is derived from an ancient Greek verb meaning “to breathe hard, or to blow”?

Asthma

Beer barrel sizes in order going up from Firkin ONLY CONNECT

Firkin Kilderkin Barrel Hogshead

Spoof FFF system of units means what?

Furlong-Firkin-Fortnight System

Finish the sequence ONLY CONNECT: Force India, Racing Point Force India, Racing Point...

ASTON MARTIN

What is name of F1 team formerly Benetton, Lotus, Renault, ....? ONLY CONNECT

Alpine

Guiness Book of Records founders twin surnames

McWhirter

Sauber Motorsport previous four names ONLY CONNECT

BMW Sauber Sauber Alfa Romeo Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber

Known now as RB F1 team from 2024, what were two previous names? Can even have previous one that was bought out to become second name. ONLY CONNECT

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Which American engineer competed with Thomas Edison's direct current by developing and marketing alternating current for electric power distribution?

George Westinghouse

Proponents of what concept suggest certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than natural processes such as evolution through natural selection?

Intelligent Design

The UK edition of what general interest magazine has announced it will cease publication after 86 years?

Reader's Digest

Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker founded what coffeehouse chain in 1971?

Starbucks

Jeremiah Manele became the prime minister of which Pacific island country in May 2024 after his predecessor Manasseh Sogavare decided not to seek another term?

Solomon Islands

What do you call the technique used in drawing or painting to transfer a design from one surface to another using a powdered medium such as charcoal or chalk?

Pouncing

Which actress became the first Australian to earn the AFI Life Achievement Award in April 2024 for her contributions to American cinema?

Nicole Kidman

Which US psychologist is best known for her research on grit, a strength she defines as passion and perseverance for long-term goals?

Angela Duckworth

Placido Domingo, Enrico Caruso, and Mario Lanza have what type of classical male singing voice?

Tenor

What 2019 Disney film is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time?

The Lion King

Named after either the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901 or his wife, what do you call the Australian dessert that consists of squares of sponge cake coated in a layer of chocolate icing and then rolled in desiccated coconut?

Lamington Cake

What ballroom and folk dance takes its name from the German word meaning "to roll or revolve"?

Waltz

What term refers to a variant form of a gene that can occur at a particular position on a chromosome? They are responsible for the variation in observable traits among individuals within a population.

Allele

Music producer of The Buggles, Yes and The Art of Noise born in Hetton-le-Hole in 1949

Trevor Horn

Born Karl Sandberg, music producer formerly of band It's Alive

Max Martin

Born 1948 Melton, Suffolk, music producer worked with Scratch Orchestra, Fripp & ____, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Roxy Music and Harmonia 76.

Brian Eno

Born 1948, Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia. South African who third wife was Shania Twain, music producer.

Robert "Mutt" Lange

Born Timothy Zachery Mosley 1972, cousin Pharell Williams. Music producer.

Timbaland

1963 born Long Beach, NY. Nicknames: DJ Double R, the Loudness King. Music Producer.

Rick Rubin

Nicknames Pipecock Jackson and The Upsetter. Born 1936 Jamaica, Music Producer. Died 2021.

Lee Scratch Perry

Born 1944, Record producer, manager (The Rolling Stones), impresario, author.

Andrew Loog OLDHAM

Born 1955 in Egham, Surrey. Record producer (U2, XTC, Morrissey, Ultravox, Big Country, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pogues).

Steve Lillywhite

Born 1939, died 1967 at 37 years old. Co-owner of Triumph record label. The Tornados' instrumental "Telstar" (1962), written and produced by this guy. Shot himself with gun owned by Heinz Burt.

Joe Meek

an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. In 2022, the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category.

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

His notable production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band (1973), the New York Dolls' New York Dolls (1973), Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (1977), and XTC's Skylarking (1986). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. A member of the bands Nazz and Utopia.

Todd Rundgren

American record producer, musician and singer, most famously T. Rex and David Bowie from Bowie's 1968 single "In the Heat of the Morning" / "London Bye Ta-Ta" to his final album Blackstar in 2016. Grammy for Blackstar.

Tony Visconti

British record producer, musician and an original partner/director at Tony Wilson's Factory Records, produced loads of that era bands. Died 42 from drugs and excess. Played by Andy Serkis in 24 Hour Party People.

Martin Hannett

Born William Wainwright in 1956, music producer sold 200m recordings worldwide of work. Done All Saints Black Coffee and Pure Shores. Bassomatic and Torch Song projects. Grammy Award for Madonna's Ray of Light and Beautiful Stranger song.

William Orbit

American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. She was the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, and has since founded two record labels and composed and produced songs for other artists, which include: "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera; "What You Waiting For?" by Gwen Stefani; and "Get the Party Started" by Pink.

Linda Perry

English record producer and recording engineer. His production credits include Magazine's Real Life (1978); XTC's White Music (1978); Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock and the Fall's This Nation's Saving Grace (both 1985); the Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (1989); the Verve's A Storm in Heaven (1993); Radiohead's The Bends (1995); Cast's All Change (1995); Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001); and the Levellers' We the Collective (2018).

John Leckie

American musician and audio engineer who was a member of the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024). He was the founder, owner, and principal engineer of the Chicago recording studio Electrical Audio. Died May 2024.

Steve Albini

American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Known for producing the diamond-selling Nirvana album Nevermind (1991).

Butch Vig

Different from most batteries, what do you call an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidizing agent into electricity through a pair of redox reactions?

Fuel Cell

Which communist politician was the leader of East Germany from 1971 to 1989?

Erich Honecker

From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960 on, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973? Preceded Erich Honecker.

Walter Ulbricht

Quarterback Caleb Williams was the first overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft. He was selected by what team?

Chicago Bears

Chocobos, Moogles, and Cactuars are fictional species that appear in what video game franchise?

Final Fantasy

The 1952 painting Mountains and Sea was the first professionally exhibited work of which female abstract expressionist painter?

Helen Frankenthaler

Which rock band released the song "Mr. Roboto" in 1983?

Styx

Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen created what website in 1999? This website later evolved into the Internet comedy company CH Media and it is doing business under the name Dropout.

CollegeHumor

Which US naval officer was best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War?

George Dewey

Regarded by several people as the best Gambian footballer of all time, Biri Biri played for which Spanish football club from 1973 to 1978?

Sevilla FC

The honden is the most sacred building at a shrine for what religion?

Shinto

What name is given to the traditional Japanese undergarment for males and females, made from a length of cotton?

Fundoshi

The siege of which island was lifted as a result of Operation Pedestal to carry supplies there in August 1942?

Malta

What is the name of the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting New Jersey with Manhattan?

The George Washington Bridge, often known just as “The George”

The roots of which plant (also known as endive and radiccio) are cultivated as a coffee substitute and are a principal ingredient of Camp Coffee?

Chicory

Which word borrowed from Latin is used to mark the conclusion of a logical argument and, when reversed, is used in folklore and mythology for a hideous giant?

Ergo

Which radio presenter hosted a Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live which included the Sausage Sandwich Game until he was fired in 2019 for “a serious error of judgement” over a tweet following the birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor?

Danny Baker

George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón, Walt Disney and which British actor and filmmaker born in Belfast in 1960 are the only four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories?

Kenneth Branagh

Which Marvel Comics mercenary was briefly married to Shiklah, Queen of the Underworld?

Deadpool

David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, and Tim Curry were original cast members of what 2005 Broadway musical?

Spamalot

Which Doctor Who star was the first actor to play Robin Hood on BBC TV in 1953?

Patrick Troughton

Which Football Hall of Famer is the only NFL quarterback to play in four consecutive Super Bowls?

Jim Kelly

What is the food source of a graminivorous animal?

Grass

Which celestial body that orbits the Sun every 1,679 days was discovered by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801?

Ceres

Which former Iranian judge was the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

Shirin EBADI

What is the single-word name by which the aria L'amour est un oiseau rebelle is most commonly known?

Habanera

Born from a mix of sources and genres, particularly electronic music and minimalism, what genre of music came from West Germany towards the end of the 1960s? The name is of uncertain origin, but is potentially of British origin due to it including a derogatory name for Germans used by Brits during World War II.

Krautrock

"At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?" This line is the second sentence in the English translation of Conversation in the Cathedral, a novel by which writer, who set many of his works in his native Peru?

Mario VARGAS LLOSA

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Surya Bonaly successfully performed what manoeuvre during her routine, despite the move being banned in competition? She remains the only person ever to land this move at an Olympic Games.

Backflip

Ahmad Shah Abdali is often seen as the Father of modern Afghanistan as the founder of what empire, which ruled large parts of Central Asia during the 18th and 19th century?

Durrani

Later lending its name to a video game development company, what term is used in Go for a position where a stone has only one remaining vacant space - or "liberty" - and can be captured on the next move?

Atari

What Japanese word is used to denote the people who were alive for and exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As of March this year, just over 110,000 were still alive.

Hibakusha

What brand of beer rose to memetic fame in 2024 when the Internet discovered a marketing campaign where spots involving the beer were edited into scenes in the Star Wars films?

Cerveza Cristal

Aamir Khan's character Bhuvan hits a six on the final ball to win a cricket game and save the village of Champaner from financial ruin at the end of what 2001 Hindi-language film?

Lagaan

Also serving as First Lady from 2006 to 2009 while her husband Manuel Zelaya was in power, which politician is the current president of Honduras? Upon her election in January 2022, she became the nation's first female leader.

Xiomara CASTRO

In March 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot with what name? The intention of the bot was to interact with Twitter users and learn, which went predictably badly and resulted in tweets such as the pictured.

Tay

Which Chinese philosopher is often considered the third great Confucian thinker, after Mencius and Confucius himself? A core tenet of his philosophy was that humans are evil by their nature, and that education was key to rising above oneself.

Xunzi

What eponymous rule in zoology suggests that among a species of animals, those of a darker or heavier pigment tend to live in humid environments and those with a lighter pigmentation find habitats in more arid environments?

Gloger's Rule

In the title of a musical romcom which premiered in 2019, Briton Dougal and American Robin are Two Strangers who do what? A six-word phrase is required.

Two Strangers CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK

What name links 1) An actor who played the Duke of Wellington in the 2023 biopic Napoleon 2) The author of Erasure, on which the 2023 film American Fiction is based 3) A radio DJ and comedian who created the characters of Cupid Stunt and Sid Snot?

Everett, (Rupert, Percival and Kenny)

What links 1) Bubo in the 1981 film Clash of the Titans 2)Tyto alba 3) A "Service" in a 1967 fantasy novel by Alan Garner

Owl

What name links 1) the war artist who painted The Battle of Britain (picture) 2) An English singer-songwriter. Her 2007 UK no.1 debut album was Made of Bricks 3) An American poet who wrote Reflections on Ice-breaking ......"Candy is Dandy but liquor is quicker"

Nash (Paul, Kate and Ogden)

Born in the Republic of Geneva, which amateur mathematician, known for his 1814 proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, gives his name to a diagrammatic interpretation of complex numbers?

Argand (Jean-Robert)

With its current logo originating in 1886 based on the 16th century founder of the company, Pierre Lacroix, which French brand of cigarette rolling paraphernalia was sold to Imperial Tobacco in 1997?

Rizla (+)

What three letter name links 1) An American journalist who feigned insanity to gain admission to a New York women's asylum, later writing a 1887 exposé ,Ten Days in a Mad House. During her 72 day world circumnavigation in 1889-1890 she met Jules Verne. 2)A leader of the mythopoietic men's movement who wrote the 1990 book Iron John: A Book About Men as his counterblast to feminism?

Bly (Nellie and Robert)

Which politically influential Soviet agronomist (1898-1976) suppressed critics of his anti-Mendelian, anti-statistical theories of crop research, resulting in their sentencing to death by the Stalinist regime when they refused to renounce modern genetic theories?

Lysenko (Trofim)

Eleanor of Aquitaine's French husband name and number

Louis VII

red paint contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin, pigment extracted used to be from Rubia tinctorum plant.

Rose madder

What (surprisingly) links 1) Swedish ready-to-wear luxury fashion "studios" which originated when Jonny Johannson created 100 pairs of raw denim jeans with red stitching 2) a common pustular skin eruption developed by adolescents with oily skin, associated with a Cutibacterium species?

Acne (studios)

Sadly attractive to slugs, what genus of shade-tolerant plants (pictured) of the family Asparagaceae is widely cultivated for its low growing ornamental foliage?

HOSTAS, plantain lilies or occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi

the mother of Apollo and Artemis

Leto

What name links 1) The artist of The Judgement of Paris (pictured) 2) the Booker prize-winning Welsh author of the 1969 novel The Elected Member? She is still the only Welsh author to have won the Booker.

Rubens (Peter Paul and Bernice)

The Swiss duo of Felix Haug and Kurt Maloo released the International hit single The Captain of Her Heart in 1985 under what name?

Double

Along with her husband Robert and Frantisek Kupka, which textile designer and artist pioneered the Orphism art movement with colourful large-scale abstract paintings and textiles? She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre in 1964.

Sonia DELAUNEY

Which barbarian soldier and statesman overthrew the child Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, ruling Italy until he himself was deposed and killed by Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths in 493 CE?

Odoacer

Originating from a nomadic Bedouin tribe, which Kingdom dating from the 3rd century BCE had its capital at Petra, a trading hub of the incense route, until it fell to the Roman Emperor Trajan in 106 CE?

Nabataean Kingdom

Which Major League baseball player of the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth's Home Run record in 1973, holding the record until his own record of 755 was surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007?

Hank AARON

Alongside Dawn Fraser, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, which Hungarian woman is the only other swimmer to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics, having won the 200m backstroke in 1988, 1992 and 1996?

Egerszegi (Krisztina)

Created from 1977, Andy Warhol's Oxidation paintings were produced by performing what action on copper-coated canvases?

Urinating

With its sliding carriage aiding highly effective core conditioning, what piece of Pilates apparatus is pictured? It shares its name with a petrochemical industry apparatus for upgrading heavy naphtha into high octane, commercially useful products

Reformer

Named for Danish and French dermatologists, which Connective Tissue disorder with 13 subtypes is characterised by joint hypermobility and extreme skin elasticity? Its rare vascular COL3A1 genetic variant can potentially cause fatal intestinal, uterine or major blood vessel rupture.

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Which endangered wild cat with the Latin name Leopardus wiedii is endemic to central and South America and is pictured below?

Margay

With 31 wins in her professional career so far since 1983, which American professional golfer is the only LPGA Tour golfer to win two majors a decade for three consecutive decades?

Juli INKSTER

A ballerina (Picture) who was the first African-American woman to be promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre? She became a sponsored athlete for the Sportswear company Under Armour in 2014.

Misty COPELAND

The spectral steed Torrent is the mount of the player, the Tarnished, in which 2022 action role-playing game set in the Lands Between, following the shattering of the title object and the disappearance of Queen Marika?

Elden Ring

Aged 75, which Argentinian pianist's performance of Liszt's First Piano Concerto at the 2016 Proms was conducted by Daniel Barenboim? A child prodigy who almost stopped playing, she won the VII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1965.

Martha ARGERICH

Which Old Testament prophet and miracle worker of 1 Kings and 2 Kings is the subject and title character of an 1846 Felix Mendelssohn oratorio?

Elijah

G: Grown widely in Germany and Alsace, which pink-skinned grape variety native to Italy's South Tyrol produces an aromatic, sweet white varietal wine said to compliment spicy food? It is the most common variety used for vendange tardive (Late Harvest) wines.

Gewürztraminer

With products including the perfume Trésor, which French cosmetics and perfume house founded in 1935 by Guillame d'Ornano had the actress Isabella Rossellini as its international face from 1982 to 1996 and then again in 2016? Zendaya, Aya Nakamura and Amanda Seyfried are also muses for this brand.

Lancôme

485 to 444 million years ago, which Geological period saw a four-fold increase in marine fauna, the movement of primitive plants onto dry land and the orogeny of the Appalachian mountain chain?

Ordovician

Worn iconically by Uma Thurman in the film Kill Bill, the Mexico 66 sneaker is a product of which "feline" Japanese sports fashion brand founded in 1949? Acquired by Asics in 1977, the brand has a namesake flagship store on London's Regent Street.

Onitsuka Tiger

Named for its discoverer, the biochemist Marilyn Kozak, the consensus sequence 5'-gccgccRccAUGG-3' allows the binding of which multi-subunit cellular organelle to eukaryotic mRNA?

Ribosome

Founded in 1982 and featuring a volatile petrochemical weapon in its name, which Birmingham heavy metal band's 1987 debut album Scum contained the one second track You Suffer, whilst 1988's From Enslavement To Obliteration featured the track Cock-Rock Alienation? Mark Greenway current lead singer.

Napalm Death

What name links 1)The director of the 1992 adaptation of Graham Swift's novel Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack and Ethan Hawke 2)An actor who wrote and directed her 2021 adaptation of Elena Ferrante's novel The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley

Gyllenhaal (Stephen and Maggie are father and daughter)

Which French actress, a recipient of a 2014 Cesar award, is known for her lead role as Adèle in the 2013 film Blue is the Warmest Colour? Her other roles include Agathe in the 2023 romantic drama Passages, in which she stars alongside Ben Whishaw?

Exarchopoulos (Adèle)

Armand-Marie Leroi, an Imperial College Professor of evolutionary biology wrote an award-winning 2004 popular science book entitled _______: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. What word fills the gap?

Mutants

Which 2011 Lego production line with tie-in computer animated TV series on the Cartoon Network features the Elemental Master of Energy, Lloyd Garmadon, protecting the title land from the forces of evil?

Ninjago

9d What two words link 1) The Manchester Indy band who sang 1991's jangly guitar song Can You Dig It 2) A character played by Cary Grant in the 1933 Paramount film of Alice in Wonderland?

Mock Turtles

Old accounting firm who were part of original Big 8 auditing firms. The firm collapsed by mid-2002, as details of its questionable accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were a factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.

Arthur Andersen

Ernst and Young were made from a merger of which two full name companies?

Ernst & Whinney Arthur Young

PriceWaterhouseCoopers were made from merger between Price Waterhouse and which other Big 8 firm full name please?

Coopers & Lybrand

Within, KPMG the PM stands for what the original Big 8 company being merged with the Klynveld Main Goerdeler part?

Peat Marwick

British multinational construction and facilities management services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation in January 2018. KPMG told off for bad auditing.

Carillion

insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider whose former CEO, COO, two board members, and other executives have been arrested or otherwise implicated in criminal proceedings. $1.9 billion missing cash missed by EY in 2020.

Wirecard

sandwich that is a specialty of Nice, France. The sandwich is composed of pain de campagne, a whole wheat bread, enclosing the classic salade niçoise, a salad composed mainly of raw vegetables, hard boiled eggs, anchovies and/or tuna, and olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Pan Bagnat

Which semiconductor device, used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power, superseded vacuum tubes in electronic equipment? The name of this device precedes the word ‘radio’ in the name of a type of portable radio popular in the 1960s and ’70s.

Transistor

What word beginning with T is used in pottery for the process of shaping a pot on a wheel? It is not to be confused with ‘turning’ and sounds like something you should not do with a pot.

Throwing

The three Olympic equestrian disciplines are dressage, show jumping and which other? Pippa Funnell [fun-NELL] and Zara Tindall have won international medals in this discipline, which sees competitors take part in dressage, cross-country and show jumping on successive days.

Three Day Eventing

In the classic American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, which actor played the role of Tony, an astronaut who marries the 2000-year-old genie of the show’s title? This actor found greater fame with a long-running TV role that began in 1978.

Larry HAGMAN

Which battle of 216 BC resulted in the total defeat of Roman Republic forces by the Carthaginians, with Carthaginian commander Hannibal using a double-envelopment tactic to practically annihilate the Roman army? This battle followed earlier Carthiginian victories at Trebia and Lake Trasimene.

CANNAE

What modern portmanteau parenting term is used to describe a rebellious and strong-willed three-year-old?

Threenager

Which Bulgarian athlete set a world record of 2.09 metres in the women’s high jump in 1987, which still stands today?

Kostadinova

Which red-skinned, seven-tongued deity is the god of fire in Hinduism?

Agni

Which crime novelist has written a series of Hercule Poirot continuation novels with the blessing of the Agatha Christie estate, including The Monogram Murders, Closed Casket and The Mystery of Three Quarters? She is also known for her crime thrillers featuring the characters Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse

Sophie HANNAH

In 2021, Nigo [nee-go] was appointed creative director of what French fashion house? This fashion brand takes its name from the given name of its founder, who has the surname Takada.

Kenzo

Which English civil engineer designed the third Eddystone lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, which was greatly influential on lighthouse design and an important step in the development of modern concrete?

John SMEATON

The cover of which 1996 album by Super Furry Animals features images of notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks in various disguises?

Fuzzy Logic

What word is commonly used to describe the points on a plant stem where the leaves attach? It is not to be confused with the petiole, which is the stalk attaching the blade to the stem.

Node

Which 1993 movie, the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers, follows the lives of teenager Caine Lawson and his friend O-Dog in the brutal gang lifestyle of South Los Angeles? The movie also features Jada Pinkett and the rapper MC Eiht in their first film roles.

Menace II Society

the headmistress of St. Trinian's

Camilla Fritton

What 4 letter name is given to the shallow depression or flattened nest of grass that a hare lives in?

Form

Beginning with an 'I', but usually denoted with by the letter 'j'. In mechanics what name is given to a change in an object's momentum?

Impulse

Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 13 (M13) are all examples of what astronomical objects? These compact spherical star clusters contain between 1000 - 1 million gravitationally bound stars and contain some of the oldest known stars in the Universe.

Globular Clusters

Formed in pools of water in caves, what two word name is given to the spherical concretions of calcite, which builds up over the time around a nucleus?

Cave Pearls

With a name meaning "beside crested lizard". Which duck-billed hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (76.9 - 73.5 million years ago) seen below, was recognisable by a large, hollow crest protruding out of its head?

Parasaurolophus

Quasi-satellites are objects in our solar system that despite orbiting the Sun, appear to rotate around a planet due to their orbital configurations. In 2002, a sub kilometre asteroid denoted 524522 Zoozve became the first known quasi-satellite to be discovered 'orbiting' which of the terrestrial planets?

Venus

MINT countries of emerging economies

Mexico Indonesia Nigeria Turkey

Which television show’s theme tune begins with the words: “It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights”?

The Muppet Show

SPORT: What is the maximum number of players who may be on a baseball field when the pitcher throws the ball?

13 - 9 in defence and 3 batters on bases

NURSERY RHYMES: Who came to visit me for the sake of my little nut tree?

The King of Spain’s daughter

HISTORY: Much beloved as an insult by Captain Haddock in the Tintin comic book series, the bashi-bazouks were irregular forces notorious for being violently brutal and undisciplined, serving which empire in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries?

Ottoman

GEOGRAPHY: If an isobar is a line on a map which connects points of equal pressure, and an isotherm connects points of equal temperature, what is shown by an isobath?

Water Depth

TRAVEL: Mitsuko Tottori was named as the first woman to lead Japan Airlines when she was named President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2024. In what capacity did she join the company in 1985?

Flight Attendant

ENGLAND: Which area of heathland, oak woodlands, ancient parklands and agricultural land in Somerset was designated England’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956?

Quantock Hills

FILM: Which first name is shared by Tommy’s punk cousin played by Paul Nicholas in the 1975 film, the actor who played Wyatt Earp in the 1994 film, and the title character of a Lionel Shriver novel filmed starring Tilda Swinton in 2011?

Kevin

TELEVISION: Sharing its name with a type of savoury roly-poly pudding, which 1970s animated children’s television programme won a BAFTA in 2015 when revived in a version narrated by Michael Palin?

The Clangers

FOOTBALL: Which team is missing from this list: Alloa, Annan, Charlton, Dumbarton, Forfar, Wigan?

Oldham (these are the English and Scottish league clubs which are all “Athletics”)

In a standard English Scrabble set, which is the only letter which is worth 2 points and has 3 tiles?

G

What is A4 paper dimensions in mm?

210x297

Wives of Frank Sinatra going back in order

Barbara Sinatra, Mia Farrow, Ava Gardner, Nancy Barbato.

Three books in the Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy

Men at Arms Officers and Gentlemen Unconditional Surrender

Which Spanish artist had a pet Dachshund called Lump?

Pablo Picasso

What language links song titles by Debbie Harry and Girls Aloud?

French (French Kissin' in the USA, Can't Speak French)

In 1990, Graham Gooch scored a record 333 runs against India, at which England cricket ground?

Lord's

Which English romantic artist painted The Rooftops of Venice from the Hotel Europa at Sunrise in 1840?

JMW Turner

What home furnishing can go before viper, beetle, python, and moth?

Carpet

In World Cup competitions, how many minutes long is a netball match?

60 minutes

On December 2nd 1968, which American psychedelic rock band staged a rooftop performance on top of the Schuyler hotel in New York, 7 weeks before The Beatles rooftop concert in London?

Jefferson Airplane

Which vegetable is used to make a Crème Ninon soup?

Pea

Which Irish romance novelist wrote Light a Penny Candle and Tara Road?

Maeve Binchy

Kevin Whately played GP Jack Kerruish in which ITV medical drama series?

Peak Practice

Calamine is an old term for the ore of which metallic element?

Zinc

The Ponte Pietra in Verona, built in 100 BC, crosses which Italian river?

Adige

"Swiss Blue" and "Mystic" are forms of which hard gemstone?

Topaz

Which poem by Sylvia Plath begins "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions"?

Mirror

What form of transport is the setting for the 2022 comedy film Triangle of Sadness?

Luxury Yacht

Megrim, a flatfish typically cooked in meunière sauce, is more commonly known by what name?

Cornish Sole

Which Californian racecourse stages the Shoemaker Mile Stakes every year?

Santa Anita Park

Which Indian state shares borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar? Capital is Aizawl.

Mizoram

Which Ella Henderson song shares its title with an Agatha Christie play and a UK TV channel?

Alibi

What word links a short story by Oscar Wilde, a chili pepper with about 1 million Scoville heat units, and a manga created by Masamune Shirow?

Ghost (The Canterville Ghost, ghost pepper, Ghost in the Shell)

Northern Irish motorcyclist from Ballymoney, County Antrim, who was noted for his performances at the Isle of Man TT. In 2015, he was voted Northern Ireland's greatest-ever sports star.

Joey Dunlop

The distinctive spire of which European city's stock exchange was destroyed by a fire in April 2024?

Copenhagen

In 1898, Spain declared war after rejecting the ultimatum issued by the United States to withdraw from which island?

Cuba

William Worth Belknap was the first cabinet secretary in US history to be impeached in 1876 for his role in the trader post scandal. He was holding what position during the term of Ulysses S. Grant?

Secretary of War

The zoology term avifauna refers to what creatures in a particular region, habitat, or geological period?

Birds

Known for her work in horror films, which actress played Nancy Thompson in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street?

Heather Langenkamp

The red dwarf known as Barnard's Star is located in which constellation?

Ophiuchus

What do you call the receptive tip of a carpel in the gynoecium of a flower?

Stigma

What two parts of flower make up the male part Stamen?

Anther (makes pollen) supported by Filament

What three main female parts of flower make up the PISTIL?

OVARY (at bottom) supporting a STYLE which on top is the STIGMA (where pollen germinates)

Designated a World Heritage Site in 1979, the Naqsh-e Jahan Square is located at the centre of what Middle Eastern city?

Isfahan

First issued in July 1959, Femina is the oldest women's English magazine in which Asian country?

India

The logo of what Chicago-based food conglomerate features an image of writer William Penn?

Quaker Oats

According to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), which country is the world’s largest wine producer as of 2023?

France

Which organisation will be renamed in 2025 to make young women feel more welcome?

Boy Scouts of America

Which Australian tennis player defeated Serena Williams in the third round of the 2022 US Open, which was the latter's final professional match?

Ajla Tomljanovic

Developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, players of what 2016 video game take the role of a character who inherits their deceased grandfather's dilapidated farm?

Stardew Valley

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck is known for playing what musical instrument?

Piano

Currently housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the 17th-century painting The Fall of Phaeton depicts Zeus hurling thunderbolts to stop Phaeton's chariot. It is a work by which Flemish Baroque artist?

Peter Paul Rubens

The emir of which Middle Eastern country dissolved his country's legislature and suspended several provisions to his country's constitution for four years in May 2024?

Kuwait

What vegetable is the main ingredient of the Chinese salad known as pai huang gua?

Cucumber

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk," are the first lines of what poem by John Keats?

Ode to a Nightingale

The monks of which school of Jainism follow a practice of complete nudity to symbolize their detachment from material possessions and worldly attachments?

Digambara

The capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, what is the most populous city on the Volga River?

Kazan

What is the Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations that existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust?

Shtetl

Lando Norris won his first Formula One Grand Prix in Miami in May 2024. He currently plays for what team?

McLaren

Royal Navy officer Arthur Phillip was the first governor of what Australian state?

New South Wales

What is the title of the revered Mahayana Buddhist scripture that is the first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, stating that it was created "for universal free distribution"?

Diamond Sutra

Nicknamed "The Warrior", who won the 2024 World Snooker Championship?

Kyren Wilson

Which actor portrayed George Cooper, Sr. on the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon (2017-24)?

Lance Barber

Bauerfield International Airport is the largest airport in what Pacific island country?

Port Vila, Vanuatu

Named after a French physicist, what do you call the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can be replaced by induced magnetism?

Curie Temperature

Which former leader of the Liberal Parry was MP for Orkney and Shetland fiom 1950 to 1983

Jo Grimond

Wallace and Gromit five films **ONLY CONNECT&&

A Grand Day Out The Wrong Trousers A Close Shave The Curse of the Were-Rabbit A Matter of Loaf and Death

In the 1950s ospreys returned to breed in Scotland for the first time in about 40 years. Near which loch did this take place? It later became an RSPB reserve.

Loch GARTEN

What was the sumame of the Times correspondent who became famous for his reports from the crimean war? He shares his name with a London Square.

William Howard RUSSELL

who had a number one hit in 1961 with Johnny, Remember Me

John Leyton and the Outlaws

In the children's books by Kathleen Hale what colour was a cat called Orlando

Marmalade

Name the small member of the heron famiiy with an all-white plumage that first bred in Engiand in 1996 but has since expanded its range considerably. It is now seen all year round at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve.

Little Egret

Name the ship on James Cook's first voyage, from 1768 to 1771

Endeavour

Four ships that James Cook commanded over career ONLY CONNECT

HMS Endeavour HMS Adventure HMS Discovery HMS Resolution

Name the British explorer who led the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1957-58

Vivian Fuchs

In 1964 what was the first UK number 1 single for the Rolling Stones?

It's All Over Now

Marty Robbins, Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele all released their version of the same song in 1956. Which song

Singing the Blues

The theme music for the 1949 film The Third Man was played on which instrument?

Zither (by Anton Karas)

I Can't Stop Loving You was this singer's only UK number 1, in July 1962. Name the singer.

Ray Charles

Which American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer died in 1931 aged only 28?

Bix Beiderbecke

what was Huckleberry Hound's favourite song

Clementine

Some people knew him as Madiba. By what name did everyone else know him?

Nelson Mandela

The shortest (by word count) of the 39 books of the Old Testament shares its name with a character in Trollope's Barchester Towers, played by Alan Rickman in the 1982 dramatisation. What is it?

Obadiah (Slope)

From which film does the song Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend come

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

The original title of Treasure Island referred to Long John silver's occupation. What was it?

The Sea Cook

3b. what was the name of the us Army base in most episodes of The Phil Silvers Show?

Fort Baxter

Name the company founded by cecil Rhodes in 188g that specialises in diamond mining and trading and until the early 21't century controlled 80% or more of the world's rough diamond distribution.

De Beers

Which scientist had a dog called Diamond who, according to legend, knocked over a candle and the resulting fire destroyed years of work?

Sir Isaac Newton

What name was given to Harold Wilson’s resignation honours list in which a number of dodgy characters were given honours

Lavender List

Which major Conservative donor said, among other things, that Diane Abbott should be shot?

Frank Hester

What is the name of the clear part of blood left after clotting occurs?

Serum

What name is given to the vertical groove between the base of the nose and the upper lip?

Philtrum

On which of Elton John's albums did the original version of Candle in the Wind first appear?

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Who was the producer of the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind?

David O. Selznick

Which company manufactured the World War 2 fighterbomber called the Typhoon?

Hawker

Britain has only one named wind, a north-easterly which blows over Cross Fell in Cumbria. What is its name?

Helm Wind

Who wrote the 1982 graphic novel When the Wind Blows about a nuclear attack on Britain?

Raymond Briggs

What is the name of the strong north wind that brings a chill to the French Riviera in winter and spring?

Mistral

Frank Zappa backing group

Mothers of Invention

Dr Hook backing group

The Medicine Show

Bruce Hornsby backing group

The Range

Two people, same surname. Welsh actress born in 1941, who played a Liver Bird and a District Nurse on TV. English footballer born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1967. Captained England 23 times

Nerys Hughes Emlyn Hughes

English footballer, who scored the winning goal in the 1981 European Cup Final for Liverpool v Real Madrid.

Alan Kennedy

Who played the character Doctor Simon Sparrow in the 4 “Doctor” films, starting with “Doctor in the House” from 1954-1963?

Dirk BOGARDE

How many time zones are there in Russia?

11

How much did a Dog Licence cost when it was abolished in 1987?

37.5 pence

Established in 1638 in which European city would you find the oldest Casino in the world?

Venice

Which English Poet and satirist, who died in 1744, coined the term “The Spectre at the Feast”?

Alexander Pope

The Secret Policeman’s Ball was a series of benefit shows staged initially from 1976-81 to raise money for which Charity?

Amnesty International

Ageusia is losing the function of which sense?

Taste

Type of precipitation also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of crisp, opaque rime. Comes from germanic "pearl barley".

Graupel

What famous British woman was born in Lincolnshire in 1925 and died on 8th April 2013?

Margaret Thatcher

Where were the 1928 summer Olympic games held?

Amsterdam

In the 1922 general election Winston Churchill lost his seat in Parliament to a Prohibitionist Party member. Where?

Dundee

The core of the Earth is considered to be largely made up of what two metals

Iron Nickel

What metal is found in pre-LED yellow overhead street lighting

Sodium

golf club in Wirral in Merseyside, England has held the Open

Royal Liverpool

golf club in Southport, Merseyside, has held the Open?

Royal Birkdale

Lancashire, England, is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation. The Women's British Open has also been played on the course five times.

(Royal) Lytham St. Annes

What are the three longest rivers in Scotland

Tay, Spey, Clyde

Three of the four Open Golf Championship venues in Scotland are on the East coast. Can you name them?

Carnoustie, St. Andrews, Muirfield

Golf course on Open Championship rotation, in East Lothian, home of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.

Muirfield

golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is approximately 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Scotland's largest city, Glasgow. The Open Championship originated at this Golf Club, and was played there 24 times between 1860 and 1925.

Prestwick Golf Club

Carnoustie is thought of as being the toughest of the Open venues, especially the last three holes, and is well remembered for which Frenchman whose triple bogeying on the 18th when he only needed a double bogey to win in 1999.

Jean van de Velde

What three Canadian provinces are known as ‘the prairie provinces’?

Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan

Who is the current MP for Epsom & Ewell and a former Secretary of State for Transport between 2016 to 2019

Christopher Grayling

A New York building at no 1650 Broadway was the birth of many tunes and songs that dominated the US charts in the ‘50s and’60s. It was better known as what, after the ground floor haberdasher’s shop name.

The Brill Building

320 of these to a mile

Perch/Rod

Five presenters of Mastermind ONLY CONNECT

Magnus Magnusson Peter Snow Clive Anderson John Humphreys Clive Myrie

Name the Fleetwood based company that manufactures the cough sweet, Fisherman’s Friend

Lofthouse

What fishing village in the SW of England is the origin and base for the singing group, Fishermans’ Friends, and is also the setting for TV’s ‘Doc Martin'

Port Isaac

Name a current BBC police series set in Northern Ireland

Blue Lights

Name the ‘blue’ regiment of the Household Cavalry

Blue Royals

Give the name of the symbolic mineral traditionally associated with a 65th wedding anniversary

Blue Sapphire

The Royal Air Force has the Red Arrows, what is the US Navy’s equivalent

Blue Angels

Which monarch’s last words are reputed to be “All my possessions for a moment of time”

Elizabeth I

Actor whose career took off with “Sophie’s Choice”, followed by “Silverado”, “A Fish Called Wanda” and many others.

Kevin Kline

In which castle on the Isle of Wight was Charles I held prior to his trial and execution?

Carisbrooke

Glasgow cathedral is dedicated to which saint?

Mungo

Which is the largest castle in Wales?

Caerphilly

Which Norman castle has a commanding situation over the river Swale?

Richmond

Which is the only English medieval cathedral with a free- standing bell tower?

Chichester

Who was “The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark” by Jill Tomlinson?

Plop

Formed in 1963, two brothers along with Pete Quaife and Mick Avory were in a band who went on to be part of the British Invasion of the United States.

The Kinks

Formed in 1961, these 3 brothers, Mike Love and Al Jardine, were originally called the Pendletones until their first single was released and they discovered their band name had been changed?

Beach Boys

A fraud perpetrated in 1912 by Charles Dawson, who claimed to have discovered the "missing link" between early apes and man.

Piltdown Man

The former and alternative name for Uraninite, a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore.

Pitchblende

A type of music for the Scottish bagpipes, generally of a ceremonial character, consisting of variations on a theme or ground.

Pibroch

A form of brass, an alloy of copper and zinc mixed in proportions so that it closely resembles gold in appearance. It was invented in the early 18th century and named after its inventor.

Pinchbeck

Who won the Women’s’ Pole Vault Gold Medal at The World Indoor Athletics Championships 2024?

Molly Caudery

At the same meeting who won the men’s 3,000 metres 2024 World Indoor Athletics Champs?

Josh Kerr

Who became the first trainer to saddle 100 winners at The Cheltenham Festival? 2024

Willie Mullins

Oliver Bearman became the youngest British driver to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix. Which team did he drive for? 2024

Ferrari

An English television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering, who described himself as a "backstreet mechanic", his statue can be seen in his hometown of Bolton.

Fred Dibnah

TAP is the national flag carrying airline of which European country?

Portugal`

Name of the title cat in The Witch's Cat is a children's novel by Ursula Moray Williams, published by George G. Harrap in 1942 with illustrations by the writer.

Gobbolino

Four Ice Age sequels names ONLY CONNECT

The Meltdown Dawn of the Dinosaurs Continental Drift Collision Course

Same words with different pronunciation: To imprison without trial and An assistant doctor in a hospita

Intern/Intern

Same words with different pronunciation: To abandon and A large area of waste land.

Desert and Desert

Same words with different pronunciation: To allow and A document giving authorisation.

Permit and Permit

Same words with different pronunciation: To associate with and The spouse of a monarch.

Consort and Consort

Same words with different pronunciation: To help assuage the feelings of and A control unit of an electrical or mechanical device.

Console and Console

The year Alaska was bought from Russia by the USA (4). Prime.

1867

The numerical designation of the Boeing Flying Fortress (2). Prime.

17

The year of the publication of the Book of Common Prayer, edited and co-authored by Thomas Cranmer (4). Prime.

1549

The platform from which the ‘Chattanooga Choo-Choo’ departs. (2) Prime.

29

An iconic Porsche sports car model, first manufactured in1964(3). Prime.

911

The year of the Battle of Lepanto at the western end of the Corinthian Gulf. This was the last naval engagement in European history to be fought by galleys powered by oars. (4) Prime.

1571

A small car manufactured by Peugeot, between 2005-2014 (3). Prime.

107

The year of the Arab Spring, ultimately doomed to failure, bloodshed and disaster (4). Prime.

2011

Mick Jagger appeared in which 1970 crime drama, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg?

Performance

Madonna was one of the stars of which 1985 film, directed by Susan Seidelman?

Desperately Seeking Susan

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a 1973 Western, featured Bob Dylan in its cast. But which other singer-songwriter played Billy the Kid?

Kris Kristofferson

Which frontman of a band who released 8 studio albums from 1977 to 1988, directed and played the Narrator in the 1986 film True Stories?

David Byrne

David Bowie starred in which 1976 sci-fi film directed by Nicolas Roeg?

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Which two-player card game is usually played with a pegboard of 61 holes per player?

Cribbage

Risk is split into how many different territories?

42

Risk creator board game

Albert Lamorisse

Cluedo creator board game

Anthony Pratt

Tadoma Tadoma. A large duck, commonly seen on lakes and marshes. It is quite recognisable, being largely white, with chestnut patches, and a very dark green head and neck.

Shelduck

Vanellus Vanellus. Sometimes known as the Green Plover, what is its more common name?

Lapwing/Peewit

Book: Casper Gutman is a character.

The Maltese Falcon (he's the villain)

Book: Chief Martin Brodie

Jaws

Play: Jimmy Porter.

Look Back in Anger

Musician and playwright, this man's operatic works include the Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. (1732-1799).

Pierre Beaumarchais

This opera singer, though troubled and temperamental, was one of the greatest of the bel canto sopranos. Her private life was every bit a source of interest as her professional career. (1923-1977).

Maria Callas

Italian-born, this artist is most famous (or notorious) for his explicit oil paintings of naked women. (1884-1920).

Amadeo Modigliani

Famous for his marriage to Simone Signoret and affair with Marilyn Monroe (among others), this fine Italian-born actor starred in such film classics as The Wages of Fear, Z, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. (1921-1991).

Yves Montand

French actress won Best Actress in 1959 for Room at the Top and nominated again for 1965 for Ship of Fools. Won extra BAFTAs for Casque d'Or and The Crucible.

Simone Signoret

What is the name of the US TV presenter who in February 2024 interviewed President Putin?

Tucker Carlson

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and which other acid are in apples?

Malic Acid

Feyenoord play in which Dutch city?

Rotterdam

St Pauli play in which German city?

Hamburg

In 1990 ‘The Rhythm of the Saints’ was the 8th studio album recorded by which American singer/songwriter.

Paul Simon

The Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the New Testament, was written by which Saint.

Luke

Which Saint is generally considered to be the first Christian martyr in the year 36 AD.

Saint Stephen

Tony Hancock and Sid James lived at 23 Railway Cuttings in which London suburb.

(East) Cheam

Albert and Harold Steptoe lived at Oil Drum Lane in which London district.

Shepherd's Bush

The world’s largest offshore windfarm is currently under construction on a sandbank in the Central to Southern North Sea. What is the name of this sandbank.

Dogger Bank

The aforementioned Cat Stevens had his first single release with which song.

I Love My Dog

This 1955 film was directed by Carol Reed and starred Diana Dors and David Kossoff. It tells of a hopeful lad who buys a goat with one tiny horn believing it will grow up to be a unicorn.

A Kid for Two Farthings

Close to the Edge was a million copy album in 1972 for which Prog Rock band.

YES

Which English county shares with Lincolnshire the smallest county border in the country? It measures just 19 metres.

Northamptonshire

Which football team plays its home games at Boundary Park.

Oldham Athletic

Which author wrote a series of books entitled The Border Trilogy?

Cormac McCarthy

Which American Rock Band released a 1974 album called On the Border? It included the tracks Already Gone and Good Day in Hell.

The Eagles

English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books. He also wrote the 1953 children's book A Funny Thing Happened which was serialised more than once on Children's Hour.

Anthony Buckeridge

Jennings novels by Anthony Buckeridge set in which prep school?

LINBURY COURT school

fictional monster, or kaiju, which first appeared as the title character in Ishirō Honda's 1956 film, is depicted as a colossal, prehistoric, irradiated species of Pteranodon.

Rodan

fictional monster, or kaiju, which first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1964 film, as an homage to the eight-headed mythological Japanese dragon Yamata no Orochi, armless, bipedal, golden and yellowish-scaled dragon with three heads, two fan-shaped wings, and two tails

King GHIDORAH

She is typically portrayed as a colossal sentient larva (caterpillar) or imago, accompanied by two miniature fairies speaking on her behalf. one of Toho's most popular monsters and second only to Godzilla in her total number of film appearances. Debuted 1961 film by Toho studios.

Mothra

New Zealand actor. He debuted in the 2013 film Shopping, for which he won the English Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.[2][3] He is known for his roles as Ricky Baker in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), the highest-grossing New Zealand film in history, as Russell "Firefist" Collins in Deadpool 2 (2018), and as Belsnickel in The Christmas Chronicles 2.

Julian DENNISON

A code of silence about criminal activity in the Mafia (6)

Omerta

A Spanish city whose cathedral is nicknamed “La Manquita” (6)

Malaga

About which Labour politician was the phrase “tired and emotional” used in the 1960’s? (both names needed)

George Brown

What is the professional name of the singer born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 in Neath, South Wales? (both names needed)

Bonnie Tyler

Based on Charles Perrault’s version of a French folktale, which may have been inspired by the life of Joan of Arc’s companion-in-arms, Gilles de Rais, the libretto for which opera was originally written by Béla Balázs for Zoltán Kodály? When it was first performed ten years later, the opera’s music had been completed by another of Balázs’s friends.

Bluebeard's Castle

What Sanskrit name is given to any of the basic musical modes used in Indian classical music that consist of a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made?

Raga

Usually celebrated over a single day in May, this holiday commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha and is the holiest festival in Buddhism. Sometimes called Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, or Buddha Day, by what Pali or Sanskrit name is this festival better-known?

VESAK

Tony Kushner’s play Hydriotaphia is based on the life of which English polymath whose 1658 work on ‘Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk’ provided Kushner with his title? This man is referenced extensively throughout the works of Jorge Luis Borges, who translated a portion of Hydriotaphia into Spanish, and is a major figure in W.G. Sebald’s novel Die Ringe des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn).

Thomas Browne

Following her death, most of her work was attributed either to Frans Hals or else her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer. Rediscovered towards the end of the 19th century, which artist, whose work often depicts children, or men drinking or making music, signed her works with a star motif because her name was a homophone for a term used by Dutch mariners to refer to the North Star?

Judith LEYSTER

The Mexican composer Juventino Rosas is best remembered today for which 1888 waltz that became closely associated with funfairs and circuses, especially in the USA?

Over the Waves

Nicknamed ‘City of the Tents’, which Saudi city, east of Mecca, is the location of the jamarāt, three walls against which pilgrims throw stones during Hajj in reenactment of Ibrahim’s ‘stoning of the Devil’?

Mina

Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) is an influential collection of poetry published in 1922 by which Brazilian author? This man also published the novel Macunaíma and wrote extensively on ethnomusicology.

Mário de Andrade

One of ‘China's Four Great Folktales’, The Legend of the White Snake tells the story of the scholar and physician Xu Xian who becomes romantically involved with which snake spirit, considered a symbol of true love? In some versions of the story, this spirit becomes deified as Madam White Snake.

Bai Suzhen

This American photographer is known for her photographs of marginalised people, such as circus performers and exotic dancers. Which New Yorker’s best-known works include Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967, which is thought to have inspired the dress and pose of the Grady sisters in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining?

Diane Arbus

What name is given to the rush-covered straw mats that form a traditional Japanese floor covering? Because they are sold in standard dimensions, these mats regulate the size of buildings, whose rooms are often measured by how many such mats can be fitted.

Tatami

Which Ghanaian sculptor is particularly noted for his enormous tapestries made from recycled scraps of aluminium bottle tops and copper wire? He was included in the 2023 Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.

El ANATSUI

Who sang Hold Me Now in the 1980s?

THOMPSON TWINS

Four artists on Love Can Build a Bridge?

Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, Eric Clapton

Slippin' Jimmy is an American animated short-form series set in the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Following a young Jimmy McGill, the series is a spin-off of which drama series? Debuting in 2015, this series was itself a spin-off of another series.

Better Call Saul

Jodâyi-e Nâder az Simin (A Separation) and Forušande (The Salesman) — both directed by who — have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Asghar Farhadi

Omar Sy stars as the gentleman thief, Assane Diop, in which French mystery-thriller series first broadcast in 2021?

Lupin

Ang Lee’s Wòhǔ Cánglóng (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Zhang Yimou’s Shímiàn máifú (House of Flying Daggers) are noted examples of films in which genre of fiction that centres on the adventures of martial artists in ancient China?

Wuxia

Which comedy-drama television series that ran for two seasons on Netflix between 2017 and 2019 was created by Spike Lee and adapted from his 1986 film of the same name? Lee had played the Knicks fan, Mars Blackmon, in the film version, while that role was taken by Anthony Ramos in the TV adaptation.

She's Gotta Have It

The Namibian bush farmer, Nǃxau ǂToma, starred as a Kalahari Desert hunter-gatherer in which 1980 South African/Botswanan film and its sequels? Despite its worldwide success, the film has been criticised for its alleged racial stereotypes and its glossing over of South Africa’s Apartheid policies.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

First aired in 1971, Polizeiruf 110 is an East German television show created as a counterpart to which West German police procedural series that debuted the previous year? Each episode of this long-running show focuses on a police force in a different city, a formula that inspired the city-specific spin-offs of American shows such as CSI and NCIS.

Tatort

The highest-grossing film by a woman director prior to the release of Barbie was which 2021 Chinese comedy, directed by and starring Jia Ling, which tells the story of a woman who finds herself transported back to a time before her birth where she makes friends with the woman who will become her mother?

Hi, Mom

Which 1987 Hindi-language TV series, narrated by Ashok Kumar, was re-aired in India during the coronavirus lockdown, when an episode broadcast by DD National on 16 April 2020 was watched by around 77 million people, making it the most watched TV show in Indian history and among the most watched worldwide?

Ramayan

Which 1959 Marcel Camus film stars Marpessa Dawn as Eurydice? The film takes the Greek myth to which Eurydice is central and retells it in the setting of a Rio de Janeiro favela during Carnaval.

Black Orpheus

Consisting of 10 one-hour long films inspired by the Ten Commandments, which 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski was described by the critic Robert Fulford as “the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television”? The entire 10-hour series was shown at the 1989 Venice International Film Festival, where it won two Independent Awards.

Dekalog

Which award-winning 2017 Chilean film, which starred Daniela Vega as the trans singer and waitress Marina Vidal, became so well-regarded internationally that it has been argued that the sense of pride that the film engendered in Chilean people was a direct factor in Chile introducing pro-trans legislation in 2018?

A Fantastic Woman

His role in the TV show El Chapulín Colorado inspired Matt Groening to create the Bumblebee Man character in The Simpsons. The Mexican comic actor Roberto Mario Gómez Bolaños is better known by what stage-name?

Chespirito

Which palace in Istanbul served as the home of the Ottoman sultans and their court until the middle of the 19th century? It has been a museum since 1924 and is home to several working mosques.

Topkapi

What name is usually given to the descendants of the French settlers exiled from Acadia, largely in modern day Canada, who then settled in Louisiana?

Cajuns

What Arabic name is given to the narrow transition band between the Sahara Desert to the north and the savannahs of the Sudan region to the south? Stretching across northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea, this semi-arid biogeographical region is characterised by the presence of its namesake acacia trees.

Sahel

Currently partially occupied by Russia, the socio-economic region of eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas is typically defined as consisting of Donetsk and which other oblast, the country’s easternmost?

Luhansk

Famed for its vineyards, the Lebanese city of Zahlé lies at the junction of Mount Lebanon and which fertile valley in east-central Lebanon that is home to almost half of the country’s arable land?

Beqaa Valley

Among the most referenced culture-bound syndromes is the case of the ‘Jumping Frenchmen’ of which American state? During the 19th century, around 50 cases were observed in lumberjacks who exhibited exaggerated startle reflexes that resulted in sudden movements, automatic obedience, and mimicry.

Maine

Oecusse (or Oecusse-Ambeno) is an exclave of which country? But for a coastline on the Savu Sea, Oecusse is surrounded by territory belonging to the only country with which this country shares a land border.

Timor L'Este

The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon is best known for his work among which indigenous tribal people, living on the border between Brazil and Venezuela, who he controversially described as “a fierce people” living “in a state of chronic warfare”? When gold was discovered in their land in the 1970s, the culture of these people was severely threatened by the influx of outsiders bringing disease, violence, and alcoholism.

Yanomami

The Pancha Ishwarams are the five ancient coastal temples built around the circumference of Sri Lanka in dedication to the Hindu supreme being Ishwara in the form of the god Shiva. The most popular of the five is the Koneswaram, located in which port city on the east of the island famed for its fine harbour accessible in all weathers to all craft?

Trincomalee

The city of Ürümqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is surrounded by the Taklamakan desert in the south and which desert to the north? Separated from the Ili River by the Tian Shan mountains, this desert is home to the Earth’s remotest point of land from any sea.

Gurbantünggüt Desert

Known by the Stoney Nakota First Nations people as Ho-run-num-nay (Lake of the Little Fishes), this lake is picturesquely framed by the Canadian Rockies and is the most visited of all the lakes in Banff National Park. Which lake gives its name to a nearby town which, with an elevation of 1,600 m (5,200 ft), is the highest in Canada.

Lake Louise

Spanning the Breitstrom, a branch of Gera River, the Krämerbrücke is a medieval bridge lined with timber-framed buildings. One of the world’s few remaining bridges home to inhabited buildings, it is a landmark in which German city and state capital?

Erfurt

Named after a traditional Haitian bogeyman, who would steal and eat misbehaved children, which infamous secret police force was established by Haitian dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier in 1959?

Tonton Macoute

Which language (technically a language family) was banned from public use in Peru following an Andean rebellion of the early 1780s led by Túpac Amaru II? The classical form of this language served as a lingua franca in the Inca Empire.

Quechua

Which city, whose ruins lie in the upper part of the Orkhon Valley in Central Mongolia, was founded by Genghis Khan in around 1220 but was made capital of the Mongol Empire by Genghis' successor Ögedei, in 1235, following the defeat of the Jin dynasty?

Karakoram

Considered a forerunner of the Albanian state, the League of Lezhë was a 15th-century alliance of Albanian aristocracy that united against Ottoman rule under which revered military commander?

Skanderbeg

Which businesswoman, the daughter of the Angolan President in post between 1979 and 2017, was once considered Africa’s richest woman, with assets of more than $2 billion? Since her father’s downfall, her assets have been frozen in her home country and in London, and, in late 2022, Interpol issued a warrant for her arrest.

Isabel dos Santos

Known as la Patria Boba (“the Foolish Fatherland”), and roughly corresponding to modern Colombia, which ‘United Provinces’ was a nation that existed between 1810 and 1816, when it was succeeded by a viceroyalty of the same name?

New Granada

Which Genoese naval commander helped Holy Roman Emperor Charles V capture Koroni, Patras, and Tunis from Ottoman corsairs and accompanied Charles on the ill-fated Algiers expedition of 1541? A 20th century ship, involved in a noted maritime disaster, would come to be named after him

Andrea Doria

What name is given to the socialist doctrine laid out by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere during the Arusha Declaration of 1967? This ideology formed the basis of Tanzania’s postcolonial socioeconomic policies.

Ujamaa

The voyages of this Carthaginian explorer, probably of the 5th century BCE, are known only from a Greek periplus that was allegedly based on inscriptions found on a tablet housed in a Carthaginian temple. Although some historians believe his travels have been much exaggerated, which explorer is said to have travelled down the west coast of Africa, possibly as far south as Gabon, where he may have made the first known description of the gorilla.

Hanno the Navigator

Following the 1812 Peace of Bucharest that ended the Russo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire ceded a large part of the Principality of Moldavia to Russia along with some Turkish territory between the Pruth and Dniester rivers. This newly acquired land became which Governorate within the Russian Empire? Covering most of modern-day Moldova, along with part of the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast, Russia lost much of this territory following the Crimean War.

Bessarabia

At its height in the 10th century, this city, the capital of Al-Andalus, had grown to be among the largest cities in the world, dwarfing even Constantinople and Baghdad. This is which city in modern-day Andalusia famed for its Moorish architecture such as the Mezquita-Catedral?

Cordoba

Which Yemeni human rights activist founded the group Women Journalists Without Chains in 2005? She was the international face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising and, later that year, she became the first Arab woman Nobel laureate when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Tawakkol Karman

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were the inaugural winners of a Peace Prize established by UNESCO in 1990 that was named after this Ivorian politician. Known as ‘the Sage of Africa’ and Le Vieux (“The Old One”), which man led his country during a period of sustained economic success and peace between 1960 and 1993?

Felix Houphouet-Boigny

Raymond Brooks-Ward known for commentating which sport?

Show Jumping

Nicknamed Uncle Eddie and known for rugby league commentary?

Eddie Waring

Commentator known most for figure skating, ice-skating and ice hockey, did olympics a lot, ice hockey trophy best defenceman in UK named after him.

Alan Weeks

Which company introduced the web browser Silk in 2011 for use on its ‘Fire’ range of products?

Amazon

Which American company introduced the popular Clinique skincare and cosmetics brand in 1968? This company is named after its New York-born founder who was the only woman to appear on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.

Estee Lauder

With a name derived from the Sanskrit for ‘circle’, which symbolic representation of spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism consists of a square with four gates containing a circle with a centre point?

Mandala

Which EU capital is home to the unusual Museum of Broken Relationships, which exhibits donated objects that in some way represent, or are evocative of, failed love affairs?

Zagreb

Regarded as part of their cultural heritage, Gadaa is the unique system of egalitarian, democratic governance used by which large ethnic group who live in Ethiopia and parts of northern Kenya? The system requires equal participation by men and women and the elected leader, while always male, rules in something resembling a dual leadership with his wife, who will complete her husband’s term in office alone should he die mid-term.

Oromo

Global searches for Celine’s Triomphe bag leapt 66% in 2019 after which Thai rapper and singer was pictured with one such bag during Paris Fashion Week? The muse of Celine’s artistic, creative, and image director, Hedi Slimane, this member of K-pop group Blackpink is, with over 100 million followers, Instagram’s most followed person from East or Southeast Asia.

Lisa

What name is given to the Japanese art of mending broken pottery using urushi lacquer mixed with a powdered precious metal, such as gold, silver, or platinum? The lacquer enhances, rather than hides, the cracks, emphasising the object’s breakages as an important part of its history rather than a series of mishaps to be covered up.

Kintsugi

Although it is thought it was originally made from the dye-fig (Ficus tinctoria), this barkcloth is now made from the bark of the introduced paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). Which coarse cloth, typically decorated with geometric patterns, remains central to the cultural identity of Pacific Islanders, particularly in Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji?

Tapa

Kate Moss, Gisele Bündchen, and Ricky Martin have all appeared in adverts for which Chilean retailer, the largest department store chain in South America? The store is named after the Italian-Chilean immigrant who founded it in 1889 rather than the South American breed of domesticated animal with which it shares its name.

Falabella

Notably modelled by the singer Françoise Hardy, who served as a muse for this designer, which man created ‘Le Smoking’ tuxedo suit for women in the 1960s?

Yves Saint-Laurent

‘Car Rapides’ are colourful, hand-painted minibuses that have served as a symbol of which African capital since the 1970s? Since the middle of the 2010s, attempts have been made to phase out their use in favour of modern Asian-made minibuses but the ‘Car Rapides’ have remained popular.

Dakar

Later becoming a poet and novelist whose works have been translated into 30 languages, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson was also known by the stage-name Johnny Triumph when he collaborated with which band on singles such as “Luftgitar”? Fronted by Björk, this group released the 1992 album Stick Around for Joy before disbanding.

The Sugarcubes

Which instrument was popularised by Wendy Carlos on the 1968 album Switched-On Bach? Carlos’s album is said to have influenced The Beatles’ decision to use this instrument on several tracks on Abbey Road.

Synthesiser

Sometimes known as ‘ghost singers’ in the West, what name is used in South Asian cinema for singers who pre-record performances for films in which the songs are then lip-synched by actors? The sisters Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle are noted performers of this role, with Bhosle listed by Guinness as the most recorded artist in history.

Playback Singers

Savor Flamenco was a Grammy Award-winning 2013 album released by which Franco-Catalan music group who helped popularise the rumba flamenca style? Among their best-known songs are their interpretations of English-language pop hits such as “My Way” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”, the latter of which appeared on the soundtrack to Toy Story 3.

Gipsy Kings

The 2023 Game of the Year award at Spiels des Jahres was won by which board game published by Pegasus Speile? The game is an adaptation of a video game released in 2021 in which players use hexagonal tiles representing different land uses, such as field, forest, and village, to create an idyllic landscape

Dorfromantik

Combining ragga, salsa, and Breton music with traditional West African music, Firin’ in Fouta was a Grammy-nominated 1994 album recorded by which Senegalese singer? This man’s 1991 collaboration with British producer Simon Emmerson led directly to the latter’s formation of the Afro Celt Sound System.

Baaba Maal

The first German band to win an MTV Video Music Award when they won Best New Artist in 2008, which group is fronted by singer Bill Kaulitz and his twin, guitarist Tom Kaulitz? In 2007, this band released the German-language album Zimmer 483 and their debut English-language album, Scream, which had combined sales of more than 2.5 million.

Tokio Hotel

The word ‘yakuza’, referring to a Japanese gangster, derives from a poor hand in which Japanese card game, somewhat like the Western game baccarat, traditionally played with kabufada cards?

Oicho-Kabu

Memorably described by the BBC as ‘The Elvis of the Balkans’, which Macedonian singer-songwriter’s 2005 album Po tebe (After You) is among the best-selling albums in Balkan pop history, topping the charts throughout the former Yugoslavia for months? In 2007, this man was given a state funeral following his death in a car crash, aged just 26.

Tose Proeski

The East African game Bao, the Ashanti game Oware, and the Western variant Kalah, are all popular examples of which family of two-player games that typically uses boards with two or four rows of cup-shaped holes that players take turns to fill with counters, often pebbles or seeds, while attempting to capture the opponent’s counters? The name of this group of games derives from the Arabic for ‘to move’ and the oldest known variants were played in Ancient Egypt.

Mancala

The Japanese video game designer Fumito Ueda followed up his hit games Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005), with which 2016 action-adventure game in which the player controls a young boy who befriends Trico, an obstinate creature that appears to be a cross between a bird and a mammal?

The Last Guardian

Metabarons, The Technopriests, and Megalex are all comic book spin-offs of which series of ‘space opera’ graphic novels written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and originally illustrated by Jean Giraud? The series’ protagonists are the reluctant hero John Difool and his talking concrete seagull, Deepo.

The Incal

Queen's Great-Grandchildren first four ONLY CONNECT

Savannah Isla George Mia

Apart from what have the Romans done for us first four Life of Brain ONLY CONNECT

Aqueduct Sanitation Roads Irrigation

In material sciences, what property of a material is typically described as its ability to be drawn into a wire without fracturing? It is commonly contrasted with ‘malleability’, which refers to a material’s ability to be hammered into a sheet.

Ductility

What adjective is applied to algorithms, such as Dijkstra’s algorithm, that make the locally optimal choice at every step? Kruskal’s algorithm and Prim’s algorithm, used to find a graph’s minimum spanning tree, are other examples of this kind of algorithm.

Greedy

Cooper pairs form due to interactions between electrons and which quasiparticles which represent the quantizations of lattice vibrations? Because these quasiparticles can be thought of as quantized sound waves, their name was introduced by Igor Tamm in analogy to the name we give to quantized light waves.

Phonons

Which Serbian geophysicist gives his name to the long-term cyclical changes in the Earth’s climate caused by variations in the orbit of the Earth over periods of many thousands of years?

Milutin Milankovitch

In placental mammals, which endocrine structure forms in the ovaries from the previous ovarian follicle during the menstrual cycle and secretes progesterone to sustain a pregnancy prior to the full development of the placenta?

Corpus Luteum

By what name do we know the condensation reaction in which an enol or enolate reacts with a carbonyl to form an intermediate product that is dehydrated to form an enone? The composer Alexander Borodin was one of two people to independently discover the first stage of this process.

Aldol Condensation

When the Māori hunted the large flightless birds known as moa to extinction in around 1400 they also caused the extinction of which enormous raptor for whom moa had been the primary prey? Māori legend suggests that this bird, the largest eagle ever known to have existed, may also have predated humans.

Haast's Eagle

In crystallography, the 14 different 3-dimensional configurations into which atoms can be arranged in crystals are given what name after a French physicist? All other lattices can simplify into one of these lattices.

Bravais lattice

Named after the American zoologist who proposed it in 1877, which ecogeographical rule states that the body surfacearea-to-volume ratio among warm-blooded animals in cold climates is lower than it is in hot climates? If conforming to the rule, animals adapted to cold climates should have shorter and thicker limbs than ones in warmer climates.

Allen's Rule

Which Indian author, who wrote several texts on mathematics, also published the 1977 book The World of Homosexuals, the first major study of homosexuality in India? Criticised by some for presenting gay relationships in a positive light, she was perhaps best known for her astonishing abilities in mental calculation; in 1977, she famously calculated the 23rd root of a 201-digit number more quickly than the UNIVAC 1101 computer.

Shakuntala Devi

Known as the dragon blood tree because of the red sap that it produces, Dracaena cinnabari is a tree native to which archipelago?

Socotra

The Amazon and the Orinoco are the two species of which unusual freshwater turtle with a large, triangular flattened head covered in several flaps, barbels, and spikes?

Mata Mata

"Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the musical Kismet (1953), containing music originally composed by which composer in which opera?

Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), in this case, the "Gliding Dance of the Maidens", from the Polovtsian Dances in the opera Prince Igor (1890)

Nicknamed ‘the Maputo Express’, which 800 m runner was, in 2003, the sole winner of the IAAF one-million-dollarjackpot, awarded to athletes who remain undefeated in their event during the Golden League series of competitions?

Maria Mutola

As with football (soccer), field hockey has yellow and red cards. Unlike soccer, field hockey also has a card of what other colour reserved for infractions deemed too minor for a yellow card and resulting in a 2-minute suspension?

Green

Which Eastern Bloc country did not boycott the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and finished second in the medal table, behind the USA, with 20 gold medals?

Romania

Having played two seasons without an official nickname after retiring their previous name, what new nickname was chosen for the Washington NFL team in 2022?

Commanders

The only cricketer in history to have scored more than 5,000 Test runs and taken more than 400 Test wickets, which great all-rounder captained India to victory over the West Indies in the 1983 Cricket World Cup Final?

Kapil DEV

Which Winter Olympic sport consists of the disciplines of cross-country skiing and ski jumping? At the 2022 Winter Olympics, it was the only sport that had no events for women.

Nordic Combined

Which was the only African country to reach the knockout stages of both the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand? They were eliminated from both tournaments by France.

Morocco

Which is the southernmost city to host the Winter Olympic Games? Highlights at the Games hosted in this city include the American figure skater Tara Lipinski becoming the youngest champion in Olympic history and the Czech Republic winning gold in the men’s ice hockey.

Nagano

In baseball, if the pitcher is conventionally assigned the number 1 and the catcher number 2, then which position is conventionally assigned the number 6? This position, between second and third base, is considered particularly demanding because more hit balls go to this position than to any other.

Shortstop SS

Which Dutch long track speed skater is the only athlete to win an individual gold medal in five consecutive Olympics (Summer or Winter)? She became her country’s youngest Olympic gold medallist when winning the 3000 m in Turin in 2006 and the oldest speed skating gold medallist in Olympic history when she won the 1500 m in Beijing in 2022.

Ireen Wust

At the Tokyo Olympics, the Australians who won the gold medals in the women's 50 m and 100 m freestyle and the women’s 100 m and 200 m backstroke, respectively, had surnames differing by a single letter. Name either swimmer.

Emma MCKEON or Kaylee MCKEOWN

Which man, who previously coached Lionel Messi as head coach of both Barcelona and the Argentine national team, currently coaches Messi at Inter Miami?

Tata MARTINO

Which city in New South Wales gives its name to a 1,000-kilometre touring car race held each October and a 12-hour endurance car race held each February? Both events are held on this city’s Mount Panorama street circuit.

Bathurst

In April 2023, the WTA controversially decided to end its suspension of events in China, which it had imposed in November 2021 when which tennis player disappeared after making allegations of sexual assault against a high-ranking Chinese politician? The first Chinese tennis player to become a world number 1 when she reached the top spot in the doubles ranking, she won women’s doubles titles at Wimbledon and the French Open with Hsieh Su-wei.

PENG Shuai

Three traditional Indian sports were demonstrated at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin: kabaddi, kho kho, and which sport that combines elements of gymnastics, yoga, and martial arts? This sport began as a training system for wrestlers in the 12th century and was declared the state sport of Madhya Pradesh in 2013.

Mallakhamba

At the 1964 Paralympics, which Israeli athlete won a gold medal in the women’s shotput, a silver medal in freestyle swimming, and a bronze medal in table tennis doubles and, four years later, was part of the team that won gold in women’s wheelchair basketball? She won 31 Paralympic medals across four sports, the second most medals in history.

Zipora RUBIN-ROSENBAUM

When testing organs, Johann Sebastian Bach was known to do what, creating a powerful blast of unfiltered sound? This has since become an expression meaning to make every effort.

Pull Out All the Stops

'Tales of ratiocination', meaning tales of logical reasoning, was the term used by which author in 1846 to describe those of his works that are now considered pioneers of the detective story?

Edgar Allen Poe

Which alliterative two-word term denotes the subgenre of historical fiction, named for the period around the 1810s when it is usually set, that is particularly associated with the prolific author Georgette Heyer?

Regency Romances

Team 4 were a 1960s firm of young British architects, considered retrospectively as an architecture supergroup. Norman Foster and Richard Rogers were two of the four - name either of the others.

Wendy CHEESEMAN or Su BRUMWELL

The 1948 anti-Soviet spy film The Iron Curtain featured, without permission, excerpts from the 5th & 6th symphonies of which Soviet composer, along with other works by Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Myaskovsky? He was the first named plaintiff in ________ v 20th Century Fox Film Corp, the resulting landmark 1948 Supreme Court case, concerning moral rights in authorship.

Dmitri Shostakovich

The sisters Kate, Maggie, Agnes, Rosie and Christina are the central characters in which 1990 play by Brian Friel?

Dancing at Lughnasa

Which two words complete the title of Norman Vincent Peale's bestselling 1952 self-help book The Power of ________ ________: A Practical Guide to Mastering the Problems of Everyday Living?

Positive Thinking

A New York Times bestseller, Milk and Honey was the first published collection of which Indianborn Canadian poet at the forefront of the 'Instapoets' trend, named for its social media success?

Rupi Kaur

The tenth and final Sikh guru appointed which object as his successor?

Guru Granth Sahib

Named after a type of astronomical instrument, who was the son of the medieval French lovers Abelard and Héloïse?

Astrolabe

Which concept in Zoroastrianism is the life force of truth and order that originates from Ahura Mazda, and stands in opposition to Druj? The threefold path of this thing consists of good thoughts, good words & good deeds.

Asha

Which philosopher and physician wrote The Book of Healing, published in 1027? Despite that title (which was a reference to curing ignorance), and although he was a physician whose medical influence (from other works) lasted several centuries, it is not actually about medicine, being instead a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia.

Avicenna / Ibn Sina

Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular. Wrote book of Optics born Basra 965.

Alhazen

Which French artist painted the 1793 self-portrait Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur, the subject of a popular internet meme where he is laughing and pointing at the viewer?

Joseph Ducreux

Northern Ireland's largest museum, the Ulster Museum, is located within which other tourist attraction in Belfast?

Botanic Gardens

What was the first name of the first wife and early muse of Karlheinz Stockhausen, a piano teacher who several of his works were dedicated to, including the a cappella choral composition Chöre für ____? (Choruses for ____)

Doris

Although Philippa Foot was the first to ask the question now known as the Trolley Problem, which other philosopher was the first to coin that name for it, in her 1976 essay Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem?

Judith Jarvis Thomson

The pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe is the only known work of which 2nd century CE Greek writer? Nothing is known for sure of his life, although it is guessed he lived on Lesbos, where it is set.

Longus

Which group of extremely well-preserved Viking-era tapestries, thought to depict images from both Norse and Christian mythologies, are named after the Swedish village in whose church they were discovered in 1910?

Overhogdal Tapestries

What name, from the Serbo-Croatian for 'monument' is given to the hundreds of WW II memorials, many of them enormous abstract concrete shapes, built around the former Yugoslavia from the 1950s to the 1990s?

Spomeniks

Which narrative form, inscribed on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural heritage in 2008, takes the form of educational folk tales passed down orally by (usually older) Palestinian women?

Hikaye

Despite being born 114 years apart, Clara Schumann and Nina Simone both worked with which German pianist (1872-1955), who was a student of Schumann at the Hoch conservatory in Frankfurt, and a teacher of Simone at the Juillard School in New York?

Carl Friedberg

Who wrote the Parade's End tetralogy?

Ford Madox Ford

What are the books in the Parade's End tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford ONLY CONNECT?

Some Do Not... No More Parades A Man Could Stand Up ---- Last Post

Almost two years after winning election, which Sinn Féin politician took office as First Minister of Northern Ireland on 3 February 2024?

Michelle O'Neill

Which four-letter word, ultimately derived from the Sanskrit for "country" is widely used (and self-applied) as a general term for South Asian people and culture, and the South Asian diaspora?

Desi

Who is the only British Prime Minister to have been born in between the two World Wars?

Margaret Thatcher

Whose image on a current Bank of England banknote is accompanied by the quote "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be"?

Alan Turing

The Nobel winning economist Esther Duflo has worked to popularise the use of RCTs in tackling poverty. More familiar for their use in medicine, what are RCTs?

Randomised Control Trials

For the first decade of his reign, Attila the Hun ruled jointly with his brother, taking sole power after his death in 445 CE, what was name?

Bleda

Which SNP politician, who died aged 93 in 2023, is the only person to have served as an MP, an MSP and an MEP (a feat unlikely to be matched post-Brexit)? In the European Parliament, she was nicknamed Madame Écosse.

Winnie Ewing

Built around 3200 BCE, making it older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids, which grand passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, is the main component of a World Heritage Site that also includes other tombs nearby in the Boyne Valley at Knowth and Dowth?

Newgrange

Who, who died in a helicopter crash in February 2024, was a former President (2010- 14 & 2018-22) of Chile?

Sebastián Piñera

Which council that met for 25 sessions between 1545 and 1563, overseen at first by Pope Paul III, and then his successors Julius II and Pius IV, marked the beginning of the Counter Reformation (aka the Catholic Revival)?

Council of Trent

Which member of the House of Lords chaired and gave his name to the 1945 New Towns Commission, which recommended the construction of New Towns and led to the New Towns Act a year later, but is better known for his work as a broadcasting executive?

John Reith, Baron REITH

Which nomadic Turkic people established a commercial empire existing from the 7th to the 10th centuries, with a large territory extending north from the Caucasus, dominating the lands between the Volga and Dneipr rivers? They allied with the Byzantines against the Persians and later fought the expanding Arabs before being conquered by the Kievan Rus.

Khazars

The emperor Shizu of Yuan, who ruled China in the late 13th century, is better known to history by what two-word name?

Kublai Khan

The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Who was the only one of its participants to live to see women get the vote 70 years later? She was the first woman in America to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister, and was a sister-in-law of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US.

Antoinette BROWN BLACKWELL (acc either last name)

Which Achaemenid empress was the daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of Darius the Great and mother of Xerxes the Great?

Atossa

Dying in unexplained circumstances in Tashkent the day after signing a 1966 peace treaty with Pakistan, who was the second Prime Minister of India?

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Not to be confused with a form of poetry, which city is the capital of the Chinese island province of Hainan?

Haikou

Which heroine of the independence struggle in both Argentina and Bolivia (1781-1862) fought alongside her husband until his death in 1816, and thereafter led troops herself, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel? The airport named for her was the main airport serving Sucre until it was replaced in 2016.

Juana AZURDUY DE PADILLA [Acc: Either last name]

St Ailbe, an Irish bishop and saint who is said to have christened St David in the early 6th century, is better known in English by what name, also that of a settlement near the city of St David's in Pembrokeshire?

St Elvis

Which constructed language, devised by Jean-François Sudre in the early 19th century and further popularised by Boleslas Gajewski at the turn of the 20th century, uses only the seven syllables of the musical solfège?

Solresol

It is estimated that 1-5% of Samoans identify as which third gender, or non-binary role, accepted in Samoan culture for generations, whose name translates as 'in the manner of woman'?

FA'AFAFINE

Since a 2016 referendum approved changing its name from Barrow, the northernmost city in Alaska (and the USA) has been known by what native name?

UTQIAĠVIK

For her work developing Voice Over Internet Protocol, which now Vice President of Engineering at Google, in 2022 became one of the first two black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame?

Marian Croak

Played by Una Stubbs, what character appeared alongside Worzel Gummidge?

Aunt Sally

Who played Worzel Gummidge?

Jon Pertwee

British children's fantasy television series, starring Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role, and created by Richard Carpenter for London Weekend Television. an 11th century bumbling wizard.

Catweazle

Nicknamed El Vampiro (Spanish, 'the vampire'), is a Chilean former professional tennis player and a coach. He won the singles and doubles gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He is the only man to have won both gold medals at the same Games since the re-introduction of Olympic tennis in 1988, and they are Chile's only two Olympic gold medals.

Nicolas Massu

Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won two Grand Slam singles titles; the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open, and a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles, and is the most recent man to have won both the men's singles and doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament (which he accomplished at the 1996 French Open).

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Sam Waterston starred in the title role of which 1980 TV miniseries, a co-production between BBC and PBS in America, that shares its name and subject with an Oscar-winning film at the 2024 awards ceremony?

Oppenheimer

Elena Gilbert, played by Nina Dobrev, was the main protagonist of which US supernatural drama TV series (2009-17), based on the series of books of the same name by L. J. Smith?

Vampire Diaries

American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which was adapted as the TV series True Blood.

Charlaine Harris

Which daughter of world-famous parents, made a cameo appearance as herself in an epilogue scene of the series finale of Derry Girls, reading a letter the girls had written to her over 25 years earlier?

Chelsea Clinton

Which former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama co-hosts the political podcast Pod Save America and has the same name as an actor and filmmaker who has both starred in and directed MCU films?

Jon Favreau

Also successful as an actor, comedian and writer, who directed the Steve Martin films The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and The Man with Two Brains?

Carl Reiner

What is the two-word title of the award-winning 1989 documentary film subtitled Stories from the Quilt, focusing on several people represented by panels in the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and culminating in the first complete display of the quilt at the National Mall in Washington DC?

Common Threads

After it became her catchphrase on Taskmaster, which comedian titled her touring show Bosh?

Kerry Godliman

Kenneth Brannagh in 1993 and Joss Whedon in 2012 have both directed film adaptations of which Shakespeare play?

Much Ado About Nothing

Casper Reardon, Adele Girard and Alice Coltrane (also a pianist) were all jazz virtuosos on which instrument, perhaps more associated with other genres of music?

Harp

Simone Garcia Johnson, the daughter of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, performs in WWE as a wrestler with what palindromic ring name?

AVA

Which 1989 Tom Petty song, the B-side to his hit Free Fallin', saw its Spotify streams increase by 36,979% in 2023 after it was featured in the launch trailer for the video game GTA 6?

Love is a Long Road

Which bestselling manga series, whose title character is a professional assassin, has been running since 1968 and was written by Takao Saito until his death in 2021?

Golgo 13

The guitarist sisters June and Jean Millington founded which US group (1969-75), one of the first all-female rock bands to achieve success? June was later replaced by Patti Quatro, sister of Suzi.

Fanny

Which prolific Hollywood extra with over 1100 films to his name holds the record of appearing in more Best Picture Oscar winning films than anyone else, with a total of 8 between 1937 (The Life of Emile Zola) and 1960 (The Apartment)?

Franklyn Farnum

Nicknamed 'the Black Godfather', and subject of the Netflix film of the same name, which music industry executive (1931-2023) whose clients included Sarah Vaughan, Lalo Schifrin, Bill Withers and Michael Jackson brokered the sale of Stax Records in the 1960s and became the Chairman of Motown in the 1990s?

Clarence AVANT

A member from 2003 until they disbanded in 2007, who was the third successive female singer of the Beautiful South, and the only one whose first name is among those listed in their hit Song for Whoever?

Alison Wheeler (1st Briana Corrigan, 2nd Jacqui Abbott)

Song for Whoever lyric listing four names Oh _____, Oh ______, Oh ______, Oh _______ ONLY CONNECT

Shirley Deborah Julie Jane

List of names from Song for Whoever ONLY CONNECT

Jennifer Alison Phillipa Sue Deborah Annabel

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover LYRICS CHORUS NAMES ONLY CONNECT

You just slip out the back JACK Make a new plan STAN You don't need to be coy ROY Hop on the bus GUS Just drop off the key LEE

A class of drugs used against HIV and a type of police car crewed by authorised firearms officers are both known by which three-letter abbreviation?

ARV (Anti-Retrovirals/Armed Response Vehicle)

In the fitness app Strava, the KOM (or QOM) is the cyclist (or runner) with the fastest recorded time on a given segment of a route. What does KOM or QOM stand for in this context?

King or Queen of the Mountain

What surname is shared by Mary, the English founder of a namesake Australian winery, John, the designer of an iconic postbox, and Ernest, the cartoon hamster?

Penfold

Named for its resemblance to a spider's web, what is the middle layer of the three meninges - the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal chord?

ARACHNOID MATER

Which plant of the genus Pogostemon is widely grown in Asia for its scented foliage, extracted as an essential oil and used in perfumes, incense, insect repellents and herbal teas, and has a common name derived from the Tamil for 'green leaf'?

Patchouli

editor of the British edition of VOGUE for a quarter of a century from 1992-2017?

Alexandra Shulman

Which American railroad construction foreman survived an 1848 accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of the left frontal lobe of his brain, and lived for another 12 years, albeit with significant personality changes that saw him become a landmark case study in neurology, neuroscience and psychology?

Phineas GAGE

What style of seamless circle skirt with a design appliqued onto it, emblematic of 1950s America, was first created in 1947 by the designer Juli Lynne Charlot?

Poodle Skirt

In which type of logic puzzle is the aim to divide the grid into regions such that every given number matches the number of squares in its region, and no two adjacent regions have the same size?

Fillomino

Which news and digital media website was founded in 2004 in Aberdeenshire as a tech blog by the 19-year-old Pete Cashmore?

Mashable

Which Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor was the founder of logotherapy?

Viktor Frankl

What name is shared by a form of wood inlaying, similar to marquetry, and a knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours?

Intarsia

The Polish Gołąbki, the Ukrainian Holubsti and the Czech and Slovak Holubky are all variations of a dish made by wrapping what around a filling of minced meat, onions and rice or buckwheat?

Cabbage

The roof of the nasal cavity, separating it from the brain, is formed by the cribriform plate, a part of which unpaired bone of the skull?

Ethmoid Bone

Which alliteratively named hobby and art supplies company was founded by Sara Davies, who in 2019 joined the panel on Dragon's Den?

Crafter's Companion

The Gákti, Luhkka and Beaska are all traditional forms of clothing associated with which indigenous people?

Sami

Which American fashion designer (1950-2001) was known for the distinctive looks he created in the 1970s and 80s for musical acts including Labelle, Kiss, Grace Jones, Divine and George Clinton & Funkadelic?

Larry Legaspi

What is the Japanese word, literally meaning 'garden tree', for the art of pruning and shaping trees grown in the ground? (As opposed to bonsai, which is concerned with trees grown in pots.)

NIWAKI

Born 1861 Calamba, Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a national hero of the Philippines.

Jose Rizal

literally “Japanese-style dressing”, is a vinaigrette-type salad dressing based on tosazu (a kind of Japanese vinegar), popular in Japan.

Wafu

12 Which other SI unit is the reciprocal of an ohm, and so has historically also been known as a mho?

Siemens

Phoxinus phoxinus is a species of freshwater fish commonly known by what name

Minnow

The drug mifepristone, the subject of much legal action and attempted bans in some US States in recent years, is widely used in combination with misoprostol to achieve what?

Medical ABORTION | TERMINATION of pregnancy

Ben More is the only Munro (ie: mountain of at least 3,000ft) on which Scottish island of the Inner Hebrides?

MULL

What name, referring to an object they are thought to resemble, is used for several waterfalls around the world, including ones in British Columbia, Waikato in New Zealand, and a part of Niagara Falls?

Bridal Veil Falls

Two thirds of all Danish winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics share what surname?

Bohr

Under standard temperature and pressure, only a handful of chemical elements, all of them gases, form stable homonuclear diatomic molecules (ie: molecules consisting of two atoms of the same element). Which element is unique among these, being the only one whose two atoms are joined by a triple bond?

Nitrogen

It was announced in 2023 that David Smith, a mathematical hobbyist, had discovered the first known aperiodic monotile - a single shape that can tile the plane without repeating patterns. That 13-sided shape became known by the name of which item of clothing?

The Hat

Which natural geographical feature defines the southern half of the border between Alberta and British Columbia, and further south, part of the border between Idaho and Montana?

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE of the Americas | GREAT DIVIDE | WESTERN DIVIDE

Which monounsaturated fatty acid, with the systematic name (9Z)-Octadec-9-enoic acid, is the most common fatty acid in nature, occurring widely in vegetable oils?

Oleic Acid

Inachis io is the scientific name of which type of butterfly, whose common name is a reference to its wings having prominent eyespots?

Peacock Butterfly

What surname was shared by the brothers Rudolf, a climatologist who refined Wladimir Köppen's original model to create the Köppen-_____ climate classification system, and Hans, a physicist and namesake of the _____-Marsden experiment (aka the Rutherford gold foil experiment) that proved the existence of the atomic nucleus?

Geiger

In 2023, which university in the West of England was chosen to be the home of the UK's new tier one artificial intelligence research resource, Isambard AI, which will be the country's most powerful supercomputer?

Bristol

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of several probes that have been placed around 1.5 million km on the far side of the Earth from the Sun. For the Sun-Earth system, this is one of the five points of equilibrium named for an Italian-French astronomer and has what alphanumeric designation?

L2

The pioneering Canadian zoologist Anne Innis Dagg (b.1933) is known for her lifetime studying which large African animals in the wild?

Giraffes

Which former peninsula is the second largest island of Denmark, after Zealand? Although still linked by several bridges, a storm severed its land connection to the mainland in 1825, creating a water link between the Limfjord and the North Sea

North Jutlandic Island

Which compound, with the formula C10H8 and a characteristic odour, is the simplest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon?

NAPHTHALENE [Acc: MOTHBALLS, WHITE TAR, CAMPHOR, NAPHTHALIN, ANTIMITE, ALBOCARBON, OR HEXALENE]

The Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway is the most common type of which metabolic pathway, that converts glucose into pyruvate?

Glycolysis

In string theory, D-branes are surfaces attached to the ends of open strings. The D is short for the name of which mathematician, whose boundary condition they satisfy?

DIRICHLET

Which term, meaning 'through time', describes a geological formation whose age varies with the place where it was deposited? For example, a continuous marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea would be younger in the direction of advancement.

Diachronism

Which South American animal resembles a long-legged jackrabbit, but is actually a rodent related to guinea pigs, which explains its alternative names of the Patagonian hare or Patagonian cavy?

Patagonian Mara

The theory of punctuated evolution was first proposed in a 1972 paper by Stephen Jay Gould and which other American palaeontologist?

Niles Eldredge

Which British mathematician coined the term 'tesseract' in 1888, and married the daughter of George Boole? Their son Sebastian patented the 'Jungle gym' children's climbing frame.

Charles Hinton

Which 840m high ridge connects the Lake District summits of Scafell and Scafell Pike?

Mickledore

Lana Del Ray wrote which song from her own album for James Bond film "Spectre"? Name of a show involving a spy.

24

American author, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks! In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music.

Anton LaVey

The dish Biloxi Bacon is actually what?

MULLET (fish)

The dish Colonial Goose is actually what?

Lamb shoulderT

Held by who since 1987, the women's world record in high jump is 2.09 metres?

Stefka Kostadinova

The current women's world record of womens long jump is held by who of the former Soviet Union who leapt 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) in Leningrad on 11 June 1988, a mark that has now stood for over 35 years.

Galina Chistyakova

The name of which suit in a standard deck of cards is also one of the pieces of apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics?

Clubs (rope, hoop, ball, ribbon are others)

Which position on a rugby union team normally wears the number 2 and is usually responsible for throwing the ball in at lineouts?

HOOKER

At the 2024 Olympics, the Stade de France will host the athletics (track and field) and which other specific sport?

Rugby Sevens

In four consecutive Wimbledon men's singles finals - Pete Sampras, Goran Ivanišević, David Nalbandian and Roger Federer, all faced opponents of what nationality?

AUSTRALIAN [Rafter, Rafter, Hewitt, Philippoussis]

Claressa Shields and Lauren Price have both won Olympic boxing golds in which weight division that, contrary to what the name might suggest, is the heaviest women's category contested at the Games?

Middleweight

Which word for a single-celled reproductive unit is also the title of a 2008 video game that sees players control the development of a species from a single-celled organism to a space-faring civilization?

Spore

The World Snooker Championship at The Crucible has gone to a deciding frame on three occasions: 1985, 1994 and 2002. Which player was involved in two of those three, winning one and losing the other?

Stephen Hendry

In chess, a checkmate delivered by a knight, in which the king cannot move away because it is completely surrounded by its own pieces, is known as what type of mate?

Smothered Mate

Which sportsman played for youth football teams of Anderlecht, PSV Eindhoven and Belgium before switching to cycling, where he became world champion in both the road race (2022) and time trial (2023) and won the 2022 Vuelta a España?

Remco Evenepoel

Who founded the sporting Cup named after him in 1900, and played on the team that won the first two editions, before going into politics, serving as US Secretary of State for War (1925-9) and Governor General of the Philippines (1929-32)?

Dwight F Davis

Which former sprinter who competed for Team GB at the 2008 Olympics, and in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics, is now appearing as 'Fire' in the revived TV series Gladiators?

Montell Douglas

The England team who won silver at the 2002 Commonwealth Games consisted of Beth Tweddle, Becky Owens, Katy Lennon, Nicola Willis and which other gymnast, who might be mistaken for a transport system opened in 2022?

Elizabeth Line

One of the most famous downhill cycling events, what is the portmanteau name of the mass start mountain bike race, held annually since 1995, that starts at the glaciated summit of Pic Blanc, above Alpe d'Huez, and descends 2,600 meters to the valley floor?

Megavalanche

Bloodborne, Elden Ring and Lords of the Fallen are examples of which relatively recent subgenre of action role-playing video games, named in reference to a series of games by FromSoftware and known for their high levels of difficulty, environmental storytelling and dark fantasy settings?

Soulslike

The logo of which sporting event consists of three 'agitos' - asymmetrical crescents in red, blue and green? The agito (from the Latin for 'I move') is intended as a symbol of movement.

Paralympics

The last time the Pichichi Award for the top goal scorer in La Liga went to a player from the home nation was the 2007-8 season, when it was won by which Spanish footballer, with 27 goals for Mallorca?

Dani Guiza

Which former champion jockey competed in the Grand National a record 21 times, with his best results being second places on What's Up Boys (2002) and Balthazar King (2014)?

Richard Johnson

After its first editions were held at Atlanta, Colonial and Inverary country clubs, which golf tournament, considered a 5th major, has been held yearly at the same Florida venue at Ponte Vedra Beach since 1977?

The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

A live bulldog named Handsome Dan has been the mascot of the sports teams of which US university since 1889? The current incarnation is Handsome Dan XIX.

Yale

After winning the 2024 Australian Open with his Australian partner Matthew Ebden, which Indian tennis player reached the top of the doubles ranking at the age of 43, becoming the oldest firsttime world No.1 in history?

Rohan Bopanna

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr won which Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2023, the only one of the entire season not won by Red Bull?

Singapore

Which daughter of a bestselling novelist was the lead writer for the 2013 reboot of the video game Tomb Raider and its 2015 sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider?

Rhianna Pratchett

What is the portmanteau name of the sport, included in the Paralympics from 1960-80, which combined two target sports by using the equipment of one and an enlarged version of the scoreboard of the other?

DARTCHERY

A controversial play popularised in the NFL by the Eagles in 2022 is a variation on the quarterback sneak, and is used to reliably make a small gain in yardage. Because it involves the quarterback receiving the ball and immediately being pushed from behind by teammates it is known as the 'tush push', or by what pun on the nickname of their home city?

Brotherly Shove

What dog followed Major at the White House owned by Joe Biden?

Commander

Name of Joe Biden's cat adopted in 2022 and first at White House since India owned by George W Bush

Willow

Emmanuel Macron's dog name

Nemo

Which grape is important in Tokay wines? 2/3 of the source.

Furmint

Which flowers were often known as Candlemas Bells as they were often seen in flower on February 2nd, Candlemas Day?

Snowdrops

Which man, nicknamed Stuffy, was the Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain?

Hugh Dowding

Oldest surviving rainforest in the world in Australia name

Daintree Forest

The 1717 Act of Grace, a proclamation by George 1st, pardoned which group of rebels?

Jacobites

'Around the World in 80 Years' is a 2024 book by which man who was 80 in March. His many achievements include being the first to reach both the North and South Poles by surface means?

Ranulph Fiennes

The Tupamaros, mainly active in the 1970's and 80's, were a Marxist guerrilla group operating in which Latin American country?

Uruguay

The horse Khartoum, owned by the movie producer character Jack Woltz, features in which 1970's film?

The Godfather

'Miss Brooke had the kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress' is the first line of which classic 19th century novel?

Middlemarch

Main female character of Far From the Madding Crowd opposite Gabriel Oak

Bathsheba Everdene

Which was regarded as the most popular Roman festival as it was marked by tomfoolery such as masters and slaves switching places?

Saturnalia

What is the common name of the plant Kniphofia Uvaria, sometimes called the Torch Lily?

Red hot poker

Dracaena trifasciata flowering plant from west Africa

Mother in laws tongue

The Puffing Devil which in 1801 was the first steam powered passenger vehicle was designed and built by which man?

Richard Trevithick

The Caeline, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal and Aventine are 5 of the Seven Hills of Rome, name one of the others?

Capitoline or Palatine

Which island, near Poole in Dorset, was the site of the 1st Scout Camp organised by Robert Baden Powell in 1907?

Brownsea Island

What 2 word term is given to a speed of over 25,000 mph or 40,000 kmh that is needed to leave planet Earth?

Escape Velocity

The World's fastest train which uses the magnetic levitation or Maglev system, and which has an average speed of 250 kilometres an hour, operates in which country?

China (Shanghai)

A pogonip is what type of weather phenomena which is most often seen in deep mountain valleys of the Western USA?

(Freezing) fog

In 1962 George Martin representing which record label subsidiary of EMI signed The Beatles after they had been rejected by Decca?

Parlophone

The supermodel man, who was married to David Bowie from 1992 until his death, was born in which East African country?

Somalia

Which English actor, who played Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones played the gangster 'genial' Harry Grout in the sitcom 'Porridge'?

Peter Vaughan

Samson and Delilah, an 1877 opera which included the famous dance music Bacchanale, was written by which French composer?

Camille Saint-Saens

National Museums Liverpool comprises 8 venues, including the World Museum Liverpool, what is the only one of the 8 on the Wirral?

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Which Scottish actor, who plays Lord Beesbury in House of the Dragon, played the Tyneside gangster Ally Fraser in the comic drama Auf Wiedersehen Pet?

Bill Patterson

Which 1911 ballet by Stravinsky tells the story of a lovelorn clown pup who dies and becomes a ghost?

Petrushka

Which city was scheduled to host the 1916 Olympic Games which were cancelled because of the First World War? *

Berlin

Bornite and chalcocite are ores of which metal?

Copper

Which ballet dancer, often considered one of the 3 greatest of the 20th century, defected to Canada in 1974?

Mikhail Baryshnikov

What is the fanciful name for the leathery egg case of the ray, skate or shark often found washed up on beaches?

Mermaids Purse

The duo Dave and Ansil Collins only had 2 UK hits, 'Monkey Spanner' and which 1971 Number 1 hit?

Double Barrel

Between 1904 and 1908, the German Empire fought the Herero Wars against the Herero people of which modern-day African country? In 2004, Germany apologised to this country for atrocities committed during the war.

Namibia

Which author wrote the semi-autobiographical novel series Children of Violence? Four of the series’ five novels are set in a lightly fictionalised version of 1930s and ’40s Southern Africa

Doris Lessing

What single word follows “We shall” in the title of a song popularised by Pete Seeger during the Civil Rights movement and perhaps most famously performed by Joan Baez at the March on Washington in 1963?

Overcome

Which 2023 video game, popular among Twitch streamers, featured a character called Jackie trying to reach the Moon from a junkyard by climbing and jumping over commonplace objects? It was permanently removed from Steam due to copyright violations only a few months after its release, but has been recreated as a popular Fornite map

Only Up!

Derived from its Spanish city of origin, what name is given to the leather used in high-end shoemaking, made from the fibrous flat connective tissue beneath the hide of a horse’s rump?

Shell CORDOVAN (or cordwain) prompt on Cordoba

Which annual Christian holy day, commemorating the descent of the holy spirit on the Apostles, takes place exactly seven weeks after Easter Sunday?

WHITSUN (or WHIT SUNDAY or PENTECOST)

Who was the 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel who led the resistance to the Norman Conquest from his base on the Isle of Ely?

Hereward the Wake

Which acclaimed English screenwriter was the creator and showrunner of The Crown?

Peter MORGAN

Which French tennis player’s only appearance in a Grand Slam final was a loss to Jana Novotná at Wimbledon in 1998?

Nathalie TAUZIAT

Which city, one of the nine national central cities of China, is the starting point of the Silk Road and is the capital of Shaanxi province? It is not to be confused with Taiyuan, the capital of the similarly-named Shanxi province.

Xi'an

Coming ultimately from the Dutch word for ‘privateer’, what term is used to describe the act of intentionally delaying the progress of a piece of legislation, such as by speaking at inordinate length?

Filibustering

Which American golfer won his first major at the 2023 US Open, beating Rory McIlroy by a single stroke? He will be hoping to defend his title at Pinehurst this weekend.

Wyndham Clark

In shoemaking, what four-letter term is given to the part of the upper that covers the front of the foot, sometimes extending over the toes?

Vamp

The success of Only Up! among streamers was partly due to the stress caused from the lack of checkpoints, a feature it shared with which 2017 platformer in which the character Diogenes uses a hammer to climb a mountain accompanied by a philosophical commentary by the game’s developer?

Getting Over It

Also known as linseed and used to create linseed oil, what seeds, high in omega-3 fatty acids, can be combined with water to create an ‘egg’ that helps bind ingredients in vegan baking?

Flax

What three words follow “We shall” or “I Shall” in the title of a song associated with Pete Seeger and the Civil Rights movement which was performed by the Freedom Singers at the March on Washington in 1963? Also used in many other protests, the lyrics liken the singer to a “tree planted by the waters”.

Not Be Moved

Doris Lessing preceded Children of Violence with her debut novel, which has what title? The book depicts the bleak existence and eventual killing of protagonist Mary Turner.

The GRASS IS SINGING

Brian Blessed also appeared in the first series of Blackadder, playing what character, a fictional king and the father of Rowan Atkinson’s Edmund? Name and regnal number required.

Richard IV

Which French tennis player’s best Grand Slam performance was as the beaten finalist in the US Open and Wimbledon in 1993 and 1997 respectively? He lost to Pete Sampras on both occasions

Cedric Pioline

The largest dwarf planet in the solar system not to have a moon is either Ceres or which trans-Neptunian object named after an Inuit goddess?

Sedna

Not to be confused with the Feast of the Ascension, which Christian holy day that celebrates the taking up to heaven of the Virgin Mary, is observed annually on 15 August?

Assumption

What was the name of King Harold II’s brother who fought against Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066?

TOSTIG Godwinson

The opening match of Euro 2024 is between hosts Germany and which of the British Home Nations?

Scotland

Which singer won series 17 of Britain’s Got Talent in June 2024? Her performance of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in the final was enough to take victory over second-placed Jack Rhodes.

Sydney CHRISTMAS

One of the beers of the world sold in Wetherspoons, from which country does the beer Baltika originate?

Russia

English fashion accessories designer who founded an eponymous company, of which she is CEO. She published her first book, If In Doubt Wash Your Hair in May 2021, a Sunday Times bestseller. Made a dame in June 2024.

Anya HINDMARCH

In the hydrologic cycle after water has fallen as precipitation and infiltrated the Earth's surface, what process refers to IT moving through the soil and rocks itself, under the force of gravity?

Percolation

Which Labour politician became the first MP to lose their seat through the recall process set down by the Recall of MPs Act 2015? Formerly the MP for Peterborough, she was convicted of perverting the course of justice and was replaced after a by-election by Lisa Forbes.

Fiona ONASANYA

With its 530, 574 and 327 trainers acquiring normcore fashion popularity in the 2020's, which running shoe brand headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1906 by William Riley, a producer of flexible three-point arch supports?

New Balance

Once percolated, the water becomes part of which freshwater body beneath the Earth's surface, the upper surface of which is referred to as the water table? As part of this body, the water moves very slowly towards the ocean.

Groundwater

One of the key roles of Vishnu is to protect which concept, popular in many Indian religions, which refers to behaviours that are believed be in harmony with the order and custom that sustain life?

Dharma

Which cloning technique is named for the Scottish institute whose associates were responsible for the creation of Dolly the Sheep?

ROSLIN Institute

The resignation of Nadine Dorries triggered a by-election in what Home Counties constituency? Also considered a Conservative safe seat, Dorries had won the seat in every general election since 2005; it is currently held by Labour's Alistair Strathern.

Mid Bedfordshire

Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize of 1970 in 2010 for her novel The Birds on the Trees, which author, who died in 2012, is known for her children's books Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig?

Nina Bawden

British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend. Also Waylander, The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend, The Legend of Deathwater. Rigante series ending with Stormrider. Died writing a trilogy on Troy.

David Gemmell

What general name is given to the ten primary avatars of Vishnu? The first part of this word derives from the Sanskrit word for 'ten'.

DASHAVATARA

In 2023 Noah Kahan recorded the song 'Everywhere Everything' with which American singer-songwriter? The daughter of a famous father, she was the opening act for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour during 2023.

Gracie Abrams

The ProGrid Omni 9 , Shadow and Jazz models are popular normcore retro running shoes of which athletic footwear and apparel brand, named for a Pennsylvania creek where the company was founded in 1898? Their shoe boxes previously featured a pronunciation guide for the brand's name.

SAUCONY

Thirteen years prior to the 'Miracle of Medinah', the USA had pulled off a remarkable final-day comeback of their own at the 1999 competition. This edition of the Ryder Cup is commonly known as the 'Battle of [BLANK], with the blank filled by the name of which town, home to the Country Club at which the competition was held? Matt Fitzpatrick won the 2022 US Open here.

BROOKLINE

The course hosted the 1991 Ryder Cup matches, dubbed the "War by the Shore". South Carolina resort.

Kiawah Island

Fritz Duquesne later moved to America and became the personal shooting instructor of which former President? In 1910, this man supported Duquesne's proposal to import hippos to Louisiana to combat meat shortages with a new source of "lake cow bacon".

Theodore ROOSEVELT

Alongside evaporation of bodies of water, what other part of the water cycle involves the evaporation of water vapour from soil and plants into atmosphere?

Transpiration

Cumulina, the first mouse cloned from adult cells to survive till adulthood, was developed by a university in which US state capital under the leadership of Ryuzo Yanagimachi?

Honolulu

The largest of all places which are inaccessible by road, with a population of over 490,000 people - which city in Peru is the ninth most populous in the country and the most populous within the Amazon rainforest?

Iquitos

The 2025 Ryder Cup will be held at the famous 'Black Course' in which state park on Long Island? Comfortably the best-known of the venue's five golf courses, the Black Course also played host to the 2019 US PGA championship, won by Brooks Koepka.

BETHPAGE

The only avatar of Vishnu who is not yet believed to have appeared on Earth is which tenth and final incarnation of the God? This avatar will usher in the new epoch of Satya Yuga in the cycle of existence.

KALKI

Founded in 2009 by two employees of the French gorpcore trailwear company Salomon, which maximalist trainer brand, notable for its brightly coloured shoes with chunky midsoles, produces the Clifton 9 and Bondi 8 trainers? The brand's name derives from the Maori verb for "To Fly"

HOKA

2024 saw the death of which children's author known for her 1960 work The L Shaped room, about a young pregnant woman who moves to a boarding house, and her 1980 children’s fantasy novel The Indian in the Cupboard?

Lynne Reid BANKS

Once water has evaporated, what is the name of the process that refers to the movement of the water in the atmosphere ahead of precipitation?

ADVECTION

Which BBC science presenter and infectious disease doctor wrote the 2023 best-selling popular science book ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food..and why can't we stop’?

Chris VAN TULLEKEN

Fashion icon Oliver Rousteing has been creative director of which French luxury fashion house since 2011, dressing singer-songwriter Tyla in a dress made of sand for the 2024 Met Ball?

BALMAIN

Which English batsman had his nose pulped by a vicious bouncer from the West Indies' Malcolm Marshall in 1986, resulting in a piece of bone being lodged in the leather of the cricket ball?

Mike GATTING

What organic chemistry term is used to describe "open chain" non-aromatic compounds which contain no benzene or arene rings?

Aliphatic

Who played Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory?

Simon Helberg

In Greek mythology, which centaur was the child of Cronus and an Oceanid called Philyra?

Chiron

Operated by Merlin, what is the name of the chain of aquarium attractions found is multiple places in the UK including London, Birmingham, Hunstanton and Scarborough?

Sea Life

Which formalism of classical mechanics, based on the principle of least action, defines a space with generalised coordinates of positions and velocities, and the mechanical system within this space, using a smooth function denoted by L?

Lagrangian mechanics

Which former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan was executed following a controversial murder trial in 1979? He founded the centre-left Pakistan People’s Party, and established the country's nuclear programme.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

What name is given to the black powder made of ground stibnite, an antimony sulphide, that has been used as an eyeliner in Egypt since 3000 BCE? It is still widely used in the region and beyond, but has been banned on health grounds in many countries.

Kohl

Which fish have modified dorsal fins allowing them to attach themselves to large creatures such as sharks and rays, with which they form mutualistic relationships by removing ectoparasites?

Remora (suckerfish acc)

What word describes the different forms of the same gene that occupy the same position in a chromosome? An organism is heterozygous if it has two of these for the same trait.

Alleles

Muslims have a religious obligation to give alms (Zakat) if their wealth exceeds a threshold called the nisab. Although the Quran does not mandate a specific amount to be paid, it is customarily set at what proportion of a person’s savings above the nisab?

1/40 or 2.5%

Which Roman poet wrote “To me this is a pleasure more precious than gold, that you, Lesbia, restore yourself to me who longed for you” in the 107th of his numbered poems?

Catullus

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto contested the 1970 Pakistani general election following the victory of which politician, the leader of the Awami League? This ultimately led to the Bangladesh Liberation War, and this man becoming Bangladesh’s first president.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Botswana is the world’s second largest producer of diamonds (behind only Russia), and diamond mining contributes around half of all government revenue, in large part because of the success of Debswana, a joint venture the Botswana government entered into with which Anglo-South African diamond mining and trading company, founded in the late 19th century by Cecil Rhodes?

De Beers

Non-Muslims are exempt from paying Zakat. What Arabic name, meaning ‘protected person’, has historically been given to non-Muslims living in Islamic states, especially those such as Jews, Christians, and Sabians, who were considered “People of the Book”?

Dhimmi

Elisabeth of Valois, the consort of Philip II of Spain, was a keen painter and recruited which Cremona-born artist to be a lady-in-waiting and court painter? She is now recognised as the creator of the most famous painting of Philip II, a work that had previously been attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello.

Sofonisba ANGUISSOLA

In contrast to Hobbes, this English philosopher believed the state of nature could be relatively peaceful, holding that individuals are naturally endowed with rights to life, liberty, and property even in the absence of civil society. Central to the development of liberalism, this is which Englishman whose works heavily influenced the American Revolution and the wording of the Declaration of Independence?

John LOCKE

What name, taken from that of the British geneticist who developed it, is given to the diagram used to predict the genotype of a breeding experiment? It summarises the possible combinations of maternal and paternal alleles.

PUNNETT square

The Desaguadero River drains Lake Titicaca, flows south through Uru Uru Lake, before emptying into which other lake in the Altiplano? This Bolivian lake was formerly the second largest in South America, but almost disappeared in 2021.

Lake POOPO

The sixth entry in which set of poems from the Silver Age of Latin literature asks “who will watch the watchmen”?

Juvenal’s Satires

The Hamiltonian can be obtained by performing which mathematical transformation on the Lagrangian? A self-inverse transformation, this operation is generally used in physics to convert functions of a particular variable to a function of its corresponding conjugate variable, for example from position to momentum. It is named after a French mathematician.

Legendre transformation

Vital to the enormous recent growth in Botswana’s economy is the Trans-[BLANK] Corridor, a highway opened in 1998 that links the country to Walvis Bay and Windhoek in Namibia, and Pretoria in South Africa. The blank in the name of the highway is filled by the name of which geographical area crossed by the highway that was once an impediment to Botswana’s trade?

Kalahari

Which dye, derived from a namesake shrub, is used in temporary body art called mehndi? It was also used in ancient Egypt to colour hair and nails and to dye mummy wrappings.

Henna

Commissioned by Philip IV of Spain, what artwork was painted by Diego Velázquez in commemoration of an event that occurred in 1625, during the Eighty Years’ War? The painting was inspired by a visit by Velázquez with Ambrogio Spinola, a general who was a key figure in the event.

The Surrender of Breda

Although dhimmi (non-Muslims) were exempt from paying Zakat, historically they were expected to pay which other tax in return for the protection of the state? This tax was paid only by non-Muslims and should not be confused with kharāj, an agricultural tax payable by all people regardless of religion, with which it is sometimes conflated.

Jizya

Around 1630, Philip IV appointed which Spaniard as his court painter, who Philip is claimed to have declared “Painter to the king, king of painters”? This artist’s love of chiaroscuro has since led him to be nicknamed the Spanish Caravaggio.

Francisco de Zurbaran

What ancient Greek poet wrote that “Water is best, and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth” in a poem celebrating an athletic victory by Hieron of Syracuse?

Pindar

If the Lagrangian of a physical system is symmetric under a continuous translation of a particular variable, then the conjugate variable within that physical system is a conserved quantity. This is a consequence of which important theorem?

Noether's Theorem

Which military officer deposed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a coup in 1977 and served as president until his death in 1988? He oversaw a period of Islamisation and deregulation and he promoted anti-Soviet policies following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Muhammad ZIA-ul-Haq

Lake Poopó is believed to be a remnant of a giant lake that once covered much of the Altiplano, Lake Tauca. Another remnant of Lake Tauca is which salt flat in Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flat?

Salar de Uyuni

Ancient Egyptians would combine black mesdemet makeup with a green makeup called udju, which was made from which copper carbonate mineral that has been mined in the Sinai since 4000 BCE and has been used decoratively in many cultures?

Malachite

Lake Tauca may have been drained by the Pilcomayo River. The Pilcomayo flows through which semi-arid lowland region spread across Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina between the Andes and the River Paraguay?

Gran Chaco

Later in his career, de Zurbaran’s stock began to fall as his sparse and austere approach was negatively contrasted with that of what contemporary artist? Best known for his religious works and paintings of children, he is perhaps most famous for his repeated depictions of the Immaculate Conception, including four held in the collection of the Prado.

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

What name is given to the form of cell division that results in haploid gametes? The process of 'crossing over' during this form of cell division results in new combinations of alleles, assuring genomic variation in offspring.

Meiosis

Although today Zakat is often paid by Muslims during Ramadan, when the practice was initiated by the prophet Muhammad it was collected on the first day of which month? This is the first month of the Islamic calendar and Ashura falls on the tenth day of this month.

Muharram

Which ancient Greek didactic poem identifies “Bronze,” “Silver,” and “Gold” ages of man, and is framed as a manual in which the author instructs his brother Perses in farming?

Hesiod's WORKS AND DAYS

Remoras may also be found on which fish, the largest bony fish in the world? These fish have a distinctive shape with their body ending abruptly after their dorsal and anal fins, and are known for basking on their sides, allowing seabirds to feed on skin parasites.

Sunfish

While serving as Foreign Minister, Bhutto persuaded President Ayub Khan to launch Operation Gibraltar in 1965, leading to the Sino-Indian War. That war was ended by the Tashkent Declaration, signed by Khan and which man, the second prime minister of India? Bhutto was dismissed from government after the declaration was signed.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Goran Malmqvist, who sat on the Nobel Committee, has said that which Chinese author would have won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature had he not died before it was awarded? This author’s works include the novel Cháng hé (Long River) and the novella Biān Chéng (Border Town).

SHEN Congwen

Chlorophyll molecules contain a single atom of which alkaline earth metal?

Magnesium

What name is given to the chain of shoals that links Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu? It was formerly a land bridge that separated the Gulf of Mannar from the Palk Strait.

Adam’s Bridge, Rama’s Bridge, Rama Setu or Setubandha

Which Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist was killed by a car bomb in 2017 following her investigations into the Panama Papers, the Maltese government, and organised crime?

Daphne Caruana Galizia

What surname is shared by Giulio, the composer of the influential collection of songs Le Nuove Musiche, and his daughter Francesca, whose 1625 opera La liberazione di Ruggiero is considered the earliest surviving opera by a woman?

Caccini

Which Chinese statesman of the Three Kingdoms era established the state that became the Kingdom of Wei, which was led by his son? He is portrayed as the villain in the classic novel Sānguó Yǎnyì (Romance of the Three Kingdoms).

Cao Cao

The 'Old Towns' and adobe mosque of which African city on the Bani River were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988?

Djenne (Mali)

The Goopy–Bagha trilogy of films consists of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980), and Gupi Bagha Phire Elo (1992). The first two films in the trilogy were directed by which acclaimed filmmaker, with the third directed by his son?

Satyajit RAY

In a model of convection within the Earth’s mantle used to explain anomalous volcanoes, what word describes super-heated materials from the core-mantle boundary that quickly rise through the mantle, similarly to a bubble in liquid or smoke in air?

Plumes

Which author wrote the highly fictionalised memoirs Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997), Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002), and Summertime (2009), all set in and around Cape Town?

JM Coetzee

First described by Sigmund Freud, what name is given in psychoanalysis to the projection of past emotions, either positive or negative, onto someone else in the present? Freud's daughter, Anna, further examined this phenomenon, which therapists are typically trained to redirect onto themselves.

Transference

Term used for folding paper but with use of cuts as opposed to origami with no cuts

Kirigami

The Woodward-Feiser rules are used in a spectroscopic technique, used to quantify the concentration of organic compounds, that is named after which two adjacent ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum? Light in these two ranges has a wavelength of between 10 and 700 nanometres. Both ranges are necessary for the point

Ultraviolet and Visible Light

Maria Tallchief is best known for her collaborations with which Russian-born choreographer, who is credited with developing neo-classical ballet in works such as Apollo? When this man founded the New York City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, Tallchief became the company’s first prima ballerina.

George Balanchine

The title character of which 1983 J. M. Coetzee novel is an impoverished man with a cleft lip who is journeying from Cape Town to his mother's birthplace amidst a fictional war fought during Apartheid-era South Africa?

Life & Times of Michael K

Anna Freud's work on transference in children saw her clash regularly with which other pioneer of child psychoanalysis who refined the object relations theory in works such as The Psychoanalysis of Children?

Melanie Klein

The Three Kingdoms period is usually considered to last from 220 to 280 CE, but some historians consider its starting point to be the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which began in 184 CE. Put down by Cáo Cāo, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was led by which Taoist general who founded the Tàipíng Dào (Way of Taiping)?

ZHANG Jiao

Lying less than 2 km north of the city in New Mexico with which it shares part of its name, which UNESCO World Heritage Site is best known for its multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe buildings, built on either side of its namesake river?

TAOS Pueblo

Melanie Klein split from Anna Freud in arguing that which component of the psyche is present at birth? This is the moral conscience that guides our behaviour and feelings, and causes anxiety and guilt, and both Sigmund and Anna Freud held that it was the last component of personality to develop.

Superego

Volcanic regions on the Earth’s surface that are away from tectonic boundaries and thought by some to be directly linked to the lower mantle via plumes are known by what name? Well known examples of this phenomenon include regions in Hawaii and Iceland.

Hotspots

UV-vis spectroscopy makes use of rectangular tubes called cuvettes. Cuvettes are also used in a technique complementary to UV-vis that is named after what process, in which an excited molecule emits light without changing spin, unlike phosphorescence?

fluorescence

The Huaca del Sol is an adobe brick pyramid found near the Peruvian city of Trujillo, lying within a valley named after which civilisation that flourished between 100 CE and 800 CE and was responsible for the pyramid's construction?

Moche

Which Chinese warlord seized control of Luoyang a year after the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and installed the puppet Emperor Xian of Han? He was later killed by his subordinate general, Lǚ Bù.

DONG Zhuo

Which Chinese warlord founded the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period? He allied with Sūn Quán to defeat Cáo Cāo at Chìbì zhī zhàn (the Battle of the Red Cliffs).

LIU Bei

The world's largest adobe building by many measures is the citadel of which city in southeastern Iran? The citadel was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 but has been partially rebuilt

Bam

The origins of Romanticism in Italy are typically traced to an 1816 article written by which Paris-born woman of letters in the journal Biblioteca italiana which invited its readers to reject Neoclassicism? This woman's novel Delphine was greatly influenced by Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther).

Germaine de STAEL

What term, meaning ‘palace’, was given to the administrative buildings of the Ottoman Empire? In the West, the word has become synonymous with the Imperial Harem, the sequestered living quarters for the Sultan’s wives, concubines, and their attendants.

Seraglio

In terms of seismic velocity, the Earth’s mantle is divided into the upper and lower mantle, with what name given to the central region at a depth of around 400 to 600 km from the crust? The name comes from the abrupt discontinuities in thermodynamic conditions at each boundary, causing the crystal structure of minerals to change.

Transition Zone

What was the title of the first film in The Apu Trilogy? Starring Kanu Banerjee as Harihar Roy, this film won the Prix du document humain at the Cannes Film Festival and the Selznick Golden Laurel for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Pather Panchali

In UV-vis spectroscopy, the pure form of what compound has an absorption peak at 260 nanometres? The most common use of machines made by Illumina is to gather data about this compound, which may contain polymorphisms called SNPs ("snips")

DNA

A-maze-ing Laughter is a 2009 bronze sculpture in Morton Park, Vancouver sculpted by which Chinese artist best known for his oil paintings depicting his own laughing face?

YUE Minjun

Their name deriving ultimately from the Sanskrit word for ‘south’, which enormous collection of multiple layers of solidified flood basalt, in the northwest of their namesake plateau in west-central India, are noted for the fossils that have been collected from their beds? Together, these layers form one of the world’s largest volcanic features.

Deccan Traps

Sometimes called the exogenous growth model because it treats productivity improvements as dependent on technological improvement and independent from capital investment, what theory of long-run economic growth earned its namesake the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics? It is sometimes co-named for an Australian economist who developed it independently.

SOLOW-Swan Model

Widely cultivated as garden plants and houseplants, which group of shrubs were originally mistaken by Europeans for cassava or manioc? The petals of these flowers are eaten in parts of Central America.

Yucca

The Western Sahara conflict involves a territorial dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), represented by which rebel movement? There has been a status quo in this conflict since the 1991 cease-fire.

POLISARIO front

First granted in 1867 to Ismail Pasha, and signifying semi-autonomous rule under the Ottoman Empire, what title was given to the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt? The title persisted until 1914 when Egypt became a British protectorate and it was replaced by Sultan.

KHEDIVE

Malalai of Maiwand was a teenage girl who was killed by British forces at the 1880 Battle of Maiwand and is revered as a national folk hero in which country? In this country she is known as the ‘Joan of Arc of [BLANK]’

Afghanistan

An 1858 meeting in eastern France between French Emperor Napoleon III and Sardinian Prime Minister the Count of Cavour led to which secret agreement where the former agreed to support Sardinia in a war against Austria in exchange for Nice and Savoy? The ensuing victory against Austria allowed Sardinia to annex Lombardy, Venetia, Parma and Modena, significantly advancing the cause of Italian unification.

Plombieres Agreement

With many hybrids now grown for their large flowers, which are available in almost every colour, which plants native to Mexico and Central America were used to treat epilepsy by the Aztecs and have large tubers that are eaten in traditional Oaxacan cuisine?

Dahlia

Which ancient Sanskrit epic poem recounts a war of succession between the Kauravas brothers and the Pandavas brothers for the throne of Hastinapura?

Mahabharata

The title character of which 2007 novel by Junot Díaz is a sci-fi and fantasy-obsessed boy, growing up in New Jersey as part of a Dominican immigrant family?

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

What is the name for an Islamic legal expert empowered to issue authoritative legal opinions or rulings called fatwas, which provide guidance on religious, ethical, and social issues based on Islamic Sharia law? They play crucial roles in resolving disputes, interpreting laws, and advising both individuals and courts.

Mufti

Also known as an Emir, what was the title given to the leader of the Emirate of Mecca (967–1916 CE), the traditional steward of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the surrounding Hejaz?

Sharif

Which de facto state, that is only recognised by one UN member, has been separated from its southern neighbour by a UN Buffer Zone known colloquially as the Green Line since the conflict between these states was frozen in 1974?

Northern Cyprus

Which French client republic was established in 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte with its capital at Milan after his victories against the Austrians, and adopted a constitution based on the French model? It served as a model for subsequent Italian unification efforts and fostered a sense of national identity.

Cisalpine Republic

The Solow–Swan model uses what doubly-eponymous production function that describes the relationship between the quantity of output and two factors of production, physical capital and labour?

Cobb-Douglas Production Function

Malalai of Maiwand was a member of which nomadic ethnic group, once known simply as Afghans, who live mostly in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan? Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who is named after Malalai of Maiwand, is also of this ethnicity

Pashtuns

Which 1999 collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri centres on the emotional pain felt by various families from India who have immigrated into the USA and are caught between their roots and the social norms of their adopted country? The collection’s title story ends with the parents of a young boy called Bobby cleaning him up after he was attacked by monkeys.

Interpreter of Maladies

Which scientist undertook a series of experiments on pendulums that are recorded in his book De motu antiquiora (On Motion), written between 1589–92? Vincenzo Viviani wrote that this scientist’s interest in pendulums began when he observed the swinging bronze chandelier in the cathedral in Pisa, the city where he was born.

Galileo Galilei

Ifemelu, who leaves Lagos to study in the USA, is the central character in which 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?

Americanah

Although Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani Pashtun, the Pashtun seat of power has, for more than three centuries, been which Afghan city? The Battle of Maiwand, at which Malalai of Maiwand was killed, was fought in the province named after this city.

Kandahar

Which plant with large orange or yellow flowers originates in Mexico, where it is sometimes called “Flor de Muerto” ('Flower of Dead”) because it is used to decorate ofrendas in Day of the Dead celebrations? Its flowers may be eaten in salads or used as food dyes.

Marigold

The Solow–Swan model superseded what earlier doubly-eponymous model developed independently by an English and a Russian-American economist? This Keynesian model suggests that the rate of economic growth is determined by the amount of capital investment in the economy and the level of productivity of that capital.

Harrod-Domar Model

Which pivotal campaign in the Italian unification movement involved Garibaldi and his Redshirts sailing from Quarto, near Genoa, to Sicily, in an attempt to overthrow the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies? This campaign enabled the annexation of southern Italy to the Kingdom of Sardinia, advancing the cause of unification

The Expedition of the Thousand

The Korean War was frozen in 1953 when an armistice agreement was signed at what village close to the border between the North and South? It was signed by North Korea, the UN Command and China, but not South Korea, as Syngman Rhee refused to accept the failure to unify Korea.

Panmunjom

Born with a twisted foot and a cleft palate, Hoonie is a major character in which 2017 novel by Min Jin Lee that tells the story of a Korean family who immigrates to Japan?

Pachinko

What word originating from the Persian meaning ‘master’ or ‘lord’ is used in Sufi traditions to honour spiritual leaders and saints? This word, also used by Mizrahi Jews in a similar context, is rendered as hodja in Turkish, which gives us Hoxha in Albanian.

Khawaja

Which network of secret societies was active in the first three decades of 19th-century Italy advocating for liberal and nationalistic reforms? Although they lacked a clear immediate political agenda and were suppressed, they inspired future leaders like Giuseppe Mazzini and contributed to the eventual unification of Italy.

Carbonari

Which plant originating in China and known for its large showy flowers, is used to make a North African tea called Karkadé and is dried and eaten in some Mexican cuisines?

Hibiscus

Which American scientist and women’s rights campaigner was the first to confirm the absorption of heat by atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapour in 1856, helping establish the concept of the greenhouse effect?

Eunice NEWTON FOOTE (accept either)

Gijsbrecht van Aemstel and Lucifer are plays by which literary figure of the Dutch Golden Age, sometimes dubbed “the Prince of Poets”?

Joost van den VONDEL

Which castle on the Adriatic coast near Trieste gives its name to a collection of ten elegies written by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke?

Duino Castle

Which Egyptian queen was the last ruler of the 12th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom, and took a regnal name associated with a crocodile god?

Sobekneferu

Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, and Olga Hahn were members of a “circle” of philosophers, scientists and mathematicians based in which European capital city?

Vienna

What name is given to the most forward area of the brain? It is responsible for reasoning, social understanding, self-control, muscle movements and learning. It is located just behind your forehead, and I hope you are using it right now. It takes actions based on the sensory information of the three rear areas of the cerebrum.

Frontal lobe (pre-frontal cortex)

In strength training, the term "contralateral" describes an exercise that engages opposite sides of the body such as a split squat done with the left leg planted and a weight held in the right hand. What related term from the Latin for "same" would describe a split squat done with the left leg planted and the weight held in the left hand?

Ipsilateral

What is the four-letter name for the Swedish custom of taking a break during the work day to have a coffee and (most likely) a kanelbulle (cinnamon bun)? Some Swedish employers have a policy that entitles workers to these daily breaks for the sake of their wellbeing and productivity.

Fika

In Uganda, a street food wrap sandwich consisting of a vegetable omelet rolled in flatbread has what name that refers to its ingredients--and to a very pricey timepiece?

ROLEX

In February 2024, the space probe Odysseus landed on the Moon. This NOVA-C type of lunar lander was not built by NASA, but by which private company with headquarters in Houston, Texas?

Intuitive Machines

Saronno, a municipality in the Lombardy region of Italy, is considered to be the birthplace of what type of almond-flavoured liqueur whose name comes from the Italian word for "bitter"?

Amaretto

Literally meaning "fault" what name is given to Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, the three energies that are believed to be present in a human body and mind and act as regulatory principles according to traditional Indian medicine?

DOSHA

Japanese retailer Ryohin Keikaku operates more than 700 stores worldwide selling reasonably priced household products, stationery, cosmetics, food, and clothing. These shops are best known by what four-letter name that comes from the Japanese for "No Brand, Quality Goods" because their merchandise is of high quality and not branded?

MUJI

First identified in Tanzania in 1952, what viral disease has a name that comes from a word meaning "contorted" or "bent" in the Kimakonde language? Caused by a unique virus transmitted by certain mosquitoes, its common symptoms of headache, fever, joint pain, and joint swelling are similar to those of Dengue fever and Zika fever, making it difficult to diagnose.

Chikungunya

Découpage, Quilling, Scherenschnitte, and Wycinanki are traditional crafts that most commonly involve the use of what material?

Paper

Taking its name from the nickname of Ding Baozhen, governor of Sichuan Province from 1876-86, this chicken dish made with cubes of chicken, peanuts, vegetables, chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns, was renamed "spicy chicken" during the "Cultural Revolution", but reclaimed which original name during the 1980s?

Kung Pao Chicken

Fervolites from the municipality of Karavas and Lefkaritika from the village of Lefkara are two styles of which handicraft for which Cyprus is historically famous?

Lace-Making

In New Age belief, an intentional Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) in which the "self" separates from the physical body and travels to another location or spiritual plane is commonly know by a certain two-word name. A 1968 album by Van Morrison was reputed to be inspired by this concept. Name EITHER the New Age concept OR the Van Morrison album

Astral Projection / Astral Weeks (album)

A Cruce Andino cruise is a land-and-water journey that crosses Lago Nahuel Huapi, Lago Frías, and Lago Todos los Santos in the Lake Districts of which TWO South American countries?

Argentina and Chile

Famous for its Green Flamed pattern (shown here) introduced in 1675, one of Central Europe's largest ceramic manufacturers is located in--and named for--a town in Upper Austria on the Traunsee. Name this historic ceramics manufacturer OR the town where it is based.

GMUNDNER Keramik / GMUNDEN

Name of the specific charms made for accessorising Crocs?

Jibbitz

Which city in Morocco is home to the popular tourist site Jardin Majorelle, a 2-acre (9,000 m2) colourful, Moorish-inspired garden conceived in 1922 by French painter Jacques Majorelle and later purchased by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé?

Marrakech

A traditional Danish treat that is mentioned in the classic 1866 Danish children's book 'Peters Jul' ('Peter's Christmas') these puffy pancakes are cooked on the stovetop in a specially designed pan with rounded sections, sprinkled with sugar, and served with jam. Their Danish name refers to a certain fruit, even though that fruit is not typically one of their ingredients. What is the Danish name for these sweet snacks?

Ebleskiver (means apple slices)

A pioneer of "street couture", this American fashion designer launched his WilliWear fashion brand in 1976, collaborated on projects with contemporary artists such as Nam June Paik and Christo & Jeanne-Claude, and reached $25 million in gross sales in 1986- -a year before his death from AIDS-related illness at age 39. Shown here with his sister Toukie, his first name is Willi: What is his surname?

Smith

Home to the Escondida and Collahuasi mines, Chile is the world's largest producer of which metal that is known for its excellent electrical conductivity and which is essential for green technology such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines?

Copper

The Watt is the SI unit of power. What is this unit when written in terms of the elementary SI-units, kilogram, meter and second?

kg⋅m2⋅s−3

In mathematics, what name is given to a derivative towards one variable of a function that contains several variables, keeping the other ones constant? It is denoted by a ∂ or a δ, rather than a d.

Partial Derivative

Not seen by scientists since 1961, researchers managed to film the creature in November 2023. The final part of its scientific name honouring a famous naturalist, Zaglossus attenboroughi is known by what common name?

Attenborough's long beaked ECHIDNA

What name is given in chemistry to nuclides (atoms) that have the same number of neutrons but a different number of protons? Examples are argon-38, potassium-39 and calcium-40.

Isotones

Aluminium is an example of a substance that exhibits this kind of magnetic behaviour, characterized as a weaker attraction to magnets than ferromagnetism. What name is given to this kind of magnetism that ferromagnets and ferrimagnets evolve to above the Curie temperature?

Paramagnetism

While studying rotating coordinate systems, who in 1835 arrived at the idea that there exists an inertial force that causes a body to follow a curved path instead of a straight one?

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

Jakow was a mathematician born in 1888 in Odessa. Later he fled to the Weimar Republic but was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. To retain his sanity there he developed a system of rapid mental calculations, that deal with addition, multiplication and division. What is the name of that method, named after Jakow's surname?

Trachtenberg system

Nuclear fusion can be done in several ways. Unlike proton-proton fusion where all parts are consumed, this second method, that is thought to be dominant in stars bigger than 1.3 sun masses, uses certain higher elements as catalysts which are later regenerated. It however requires higher temperatures, about 15 million Kelvin. What is the name of this type of fusion, normally named after the three catalysts (or their abbreviations)?

CNO Cycle - Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen

Looking at the froth on top of your beer, with bubbles appearing and disappearing at random is maybe a good representation of the nature of spacetime when we apply quantum physics to it. As very small scale particles of matter and antimatter are according to a theory set forward by John Wheeler in 1955 constantly being created and destroyed. What two-word name is given to this matter / theory?

Quantum Foam

Which French mathematician, who became president of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (at the invitation of Frederick the Great) and travelled to Lapland to determine the shape of the Earth, is nowadays best remembered for his principle that states that a physical system will follow the path of the least length and is thus credited to have first formulated the 'Principle of Least Action', a basis of science?

Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

What name, from the Greek for 'twig' or 'to sprout', is given to the undifferentiated plantlike body of algae or fungi, basically filaments that branch out in all directions?

Thallus

Also known as the golden pottos or Calabar pottos, what is the name of these noturnal and arboreal primates that live mostly live in Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon that reach a size of 22-30 cm?

ANGWANTIBOS / BEERMAK

[image] Native to Southern Africa, its cultivation now takes place mostly in The Netherlands. What type of flowering plants belonging to the Iridaceae family?

Freesia

Mostly found in tropical and temperate rainforests (New Zealand, Olympic National Park) and very wet European and North American forests, what name is given to the family of very dark green or black ferns, sometimes mistaken for moss or liverworts?

0 HYMENOPHYLLACEAE / FILMY FERMS / BRISTLE FERNS / VLIESVARENS

Textile hobby name from French for hook

Crochet

In crochet, what is the most basic of all stitches and used to begin most projects?

Chain stitch

In crochet, what stitch is used to join chain stitch to form a ring?

Slip stitch

lit. "crocheted or knitted stuffed toy") is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures. The word is a compound of the Japanese words.

Amigurumi

Mathematician Daina Taimiņa first used which art form in 1997 to create strong, durable models of hyperbolic space after finding paper models were delicate and hard to create?

Crochet

form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques. Primary knots being the square (or reef knot) and forms of hitching. A variation is called Cavandoli. Could come from arabic for striped towel or embroidered veil.

Macrame

type of cordage made by plaiting strands of dried fibre or grass. It can be used ornamentally in crafts, like a kind of macramé, or to make straw hats. It is an important material in the cultures of Oceania, where it is used in traditional architecture, boat building, fishing and as an ornamentation.

Sennit

Sometimes called Java cloth, shares name with an opera, an open, even-weave fabric traditionally used for cross-stitch embroidery. Cotton fabric has natural mesh that facilitates cross-stitching and stiffness good.

Aida cloth

In manufacturing of cloth, what is the name of the two basic components of weaving to transform yarn into textiles. One is the vertical yarns held stationary in tension on a loom while the horizontal is drawn through over and under the other thread.

Warp and Weft Warp is Vertical Weft is Horizontal

English inventor best known for the development of the spinning frame in 1767, which marked an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.

John Kay

English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, who built the first "spinning frame".

John Kay

form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian needlework tradition in which the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are outlined but not stitched. Named after namesake town in Umbria region.

Assisi embroidery

Simple, reversible line embroidery stitch most commonly used in Blackwork embroidery and Assisi embroidery. Named after German painter.

Holbein stitch

small, diagonal needlepoint stitch that crosses over the intersection of one horizontal (weft) and one vertical (warp) thread of needlepoint canvas forming a slanted stitch at a 45-degree angle

Tent stitch (petit point in French, can be used in Gobelins)

red-yellow coloured ritual protection thread, sometimes with knots, found on the Indian subcontinent. Rishi Sunak seen wearing.

Kautuka

Sumerian legend claims that the secret of which fabric was discovered by Urnamman of Lagash. Another story of Saint Clement and Saint Christopher relates that the men packed their sandals with wool to prevent blisters while fleeing from persecution and this made the first type of this fabric.

Felt

Name of the fabric from the Angora goat

Mohair

Angora wool comes from which animal?

Angora rabbit

traditional Russian winter footwear, essentially felt boots: the name literally means "made by felting". They are not water-resistant, and are often worn with galoshes to protect the soles from wear and moisture.

Valenki

technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops, can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, accessories such as earrings, necklaces, waist beads, and other decorative pieces. The lace is formed by a pattern of rings and chains formed from a series of cow hitch or half-hitch knots, called double stitches, over a core thread.

Tatting

known as "DC's Hat Lady", was an American milliner and businesswoman. One of her hats was displayed and is in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Made hats for Maya Angelou and Dorothy Height. Died aged 103 in 2022.

Vanilla Beane

milliner and modiste to Marie Antoinette, is often described as the world's first celebrity fashion designer

Rose Bertin

Mexican-American haute couture milliner. best known for her work with Lady Gaga, for whom she created the famous Joanne pink hat for the Joanne World Tour. designed the fedora worn by Taylor Swift during the song "22" in The Eras Tour. "Houston" design in Country music singles "16 Carriages" and "Texas Hold 'Em" for Beyonce.

Gladys Tamez

Mechanical form made of wood shaped like foot for shoemakers

Last

Patron saint of shoemakers

St Crispin

German shoemaking company. Founded in Munich in 1596, it is the oldest existing shoemaking company in the world.

Ed Meier

French fashion designer who specialized in shoes. He is best-known for creating the modern day stiletto heel and for placing a chrome-plated buckle on an elegant black pump, which became a must-have fashion statement for many celebrities and stars in the 50s and 60s. has been called the "Fragonard of the shoe" and his shoes "the Fabergé of Footwear". 1937 made wedge soles for Dietrich. Designed shoes for Elizabeth II coronation.

Roger Vivier

rustic wooden shoe in one piece, which has been used particularly by the peasants of Cantabria, Spain, They have a characteristic set of three dowels on the bottom of the shoe.

Cantabrian ALBARCA

traditional Japanese footwear resembling flip-flops. A kind of sandal, geta have a flat wooden base elevated with up to three (though commonly two) "teeth", held on the foot with a fabric thong, which keeps the foot raised above the ground.

GETA

Named after Prussian general, style of shoe with open lacing, its vamp made of a single piece of leather ("one cut"), with shoelace eyelets tabs sewn on top. Similar to a derby as open lacing contrasting with Oxford shoes closed lacing.

Blucher shoe

leather boots that are a traditional footwear of Mongolia. Some unique features of the boots include slightly upturned tip of the toes,[1] different varieties of leather ornaments[2] and vertically uneven cuts at the entering holes of the footwear. Goku shoes said to be inspired by these. In Ghost of Tsushima, artifact found.

Gutals

the study of footwear, especially historical footwear whether as archaeology, shoe fashion history, or otherwise From latin for shoes

Calceology

Born 1837, American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Two famous quilts: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. In display in DC.

Harriet Powers

quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the namesake isolated African-American hamlet, Alabama along the Alabama River.

Quilts of Gee's Bend

Notable paintings: The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding (1967), The American People Series #20: Die (1967), acrylic on quilt Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (1983), children's book Tar Beach (1991), the French Collection and the American Collection quilt paintings. 1930-2024.

Faith Ringgold

a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields. Named after the French engineer who used it in the 1960s when designing bodywork of Renault cars.

Bezier curve

ornamental needlework in which pieces or patches of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern. It is commonly used as decoration, especially on garments. The technique is accomplished either by hand stitching or machine. Comes from French "to attach".

Applique

On a leaf of paper bounded into a book what's latin term for the right hand side, mostly odd numbered page in a book?

Recto

On a leaf of paper bounded into a book what's latin term for the left hand side, mostly even numbered page in a book?

Verso

an armed confrontation between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tibetan Empire against the Tang dynasty in 751 AD. In July of that year, the Tang and Abbasid armies clashed at the namesake River over control of the regions surrounding the Syr Darya.

Battle of Talas

Paper with a feathered edge is described as having a ______ edge, in contrast to a cut edge. What's missing six letter word?

Deckle

type of reed pen. It is made from a cut, dried reed, and used for Islamic calligraphy. The pen is seen as an important symbol of wisdom in Islam, and references the emphasis on knowledge and education within the Islamic tradition. Borrowed from greek for reed.

Qalam

paper craft technique that involves folding strips of colored paper in such a way to form a design in pattern of the namesake flower. originated in 20th-century Holland, where early craft people made their designs using patterned paper cut from the inside of envelopes.

Iris folding

From latin to "to insert", form of Arab wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The start of the practice dates from before the seventh century AD. The technique inlays sections of wood (at times with contrasting ivory or bone, or mother-of-pearl) within the solid wood matrix of floors and walls or of tabletops and other furniture; by contrast marquetry assembles a pattern out of veneers glued upon the carcass.

Intarsia

From middle french word meaning inlaid work: the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial panels appreciated in their own right.

Marquetry

the most famous French cabinetmaker and the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, also known as "inlay". He was "the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers". Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) recommended him to Louis XIV of France, the "Sun King" (r. 1643–1715), as "the most skilled craftsman in his profession".

Andre-Charles Boulle

a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death having succeeded Richilieu. In 1654, he acquired the title Duke of Mayenne and in 1659 that of 1st Duke of Rethel and Nevers.

Cardinal Jules Mazarin

is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power

Day of the Dupes

style of geometric decorative inlay stonework typical of the architecture of Medieval Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings. It was used most extensively for the decoration of church floors, but was also used to decorate church walls, pulpits, and bishop's thrones. The name derives from the leading family workshop of craftsmen in Rome who created such geometrical marble decorations. High altar of Westminster Abbey.

Cosmati or Cosmatesque

form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework found on the interior and exterior of churches, palaces, ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway stations. They are an ornamental art form, but also had a specific functional capacity like temperature control in homes. From Arabic for polished stone.

Azulejo

practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin

Engraving

traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal

Etching

a traditional Japanese case for holding small objects, suspended from the obi (sash) worn around the waist when wearing a kimono. They are often highly decorated with various materials such as lacquer and various techniques such as maki-e, and are more decorative than other Japanese lacquerware

Inro

P: decorative or waterproofing plastering applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. In the neighbouring county of Norfolk the term "pinking" is used.

Pargeting

The Czech athlete Dana Zátopková (née Ingrová) won the gold medal in which event at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki just minutes after her husband, Emil Zátopek, had won the gold medal in the 5000 metres?

Javelin

Of the current 30 MLB Baseball teams there are only two with names that do not end with the letter 'S'. Their names are related. Name either.

Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox

What is the name of the rally, that has been organized mostly in Africa since 2009 after Paris-Dakar moved to other parts of the world? It claims to be more sustainable, and sees the 2024 race running between Monaco and Dakar.

Africa Eco Race

One of the biggest home field advantages in the NFL can be found at the Hard Rock Stadium. The design is such that the bench of the away team is always in the sun and the home team is covered in the shade which can give a 30 degF difference on hot days. Also, the home team regularly plays in white at home which forces the away team to play in dark colours. The Hard Rock Stadium is the home turf of which NFL team?

Miami Dolphins

Which Australian cyclist ended 2nd in the 2024 Milan-San Remo, one of the most important classic races of the year, after having finished 3rd in 2015 and 2020, and 4th in 2022, without ever having won the race?

Michael Matthews

She is currently coaching Caster Semenya, which 800m runner from Mozambique is the only athlete ever to have won Olympic, World, World indoor, Commonwealth Games, Continental Games and Continental Championships titles in the same event?

Maria MUTOLA

In 2015, who became the first male Japanese tennis player to be ranked in the World's top five singles in the Open Era? His greatest feats are the reaching the final in the US Open in 2014 (lost to Marin Čilić ) and defeating Rafael Nadal to win a bronze medal at the Olympics in 2016.

Kei NISHIGORI

Amen now plays for the Houston Rockets and Ausar for the Detroit Pistons. Which identical twin brothers wrote history at the 2023 NBA draft by both being among the first five picks?

THOMPSON

What is traditionally the first event of the women's heptathlon, and is the shortest running distance the competitors race over?

100m Hurdles

The Wolverines and the Spartans are nicknames of sport teams of universities in which US state?

MICHIGAN (Spartan are Michigan State and Wolverines are Univ of Michigan)

At the end of the first game 'Super Earth' has triumphed over cyborgs and The Illuminates. The second game, released in 2024, starts a century later. Automatons threaten humankind. This second installment proved much more popular than the original, bypassing Call of Duty and Fortnite as the most played game on PlayStation. What game, named for a fictional troop-type that can be 'inserted' into battle?

HELLDIVERS

In Osaka in March, Ishioka Mikiya (Ishioka is the family name) became the first wrestler since 1914 to win his debut tournament in the elite makuuchi Grand Sumo division. The lowest ranked competitor in 2024's Emperor's Cup, 'The Japan Times' said his triumph was "one for the ages". What is his ring name?

TAKERUFUJI

Who in June 2024 became youngest premier league manager ever, in fact is younger than PL itself, when made brighton manager? Managed St Pauli in Hamburg 2022-24.

Fabian Hurzeler

Born in South Korea, she moved with her family to New Zealand. At 15, she became the youngest female golfer ever to win a 'Major'. At 17, she was crowned number one in the Women’s World Golf Rankings. She has competed in two Olympic Games (Rio and Tokyo) and won medals at both (silver and bronze). Who hopes to win Gold in Paris in 2024?

Lydia Ko

In this video game by Massive Monster from 2022, a cute animal is saved from death by a strange deity called 'The One Who Waits' who tasks it to gather a following, defeat four evil bishops and non-believers in order to break the chains holding the deity imprisoned. Which game?

Cult of the Lamb

Inspired by Genghis Khan’s horse messenger/postal system, it claims to be the World's longest and toughest horse race. Riders switch onto a fresh horse every 40 km in which 10- day race that covers 1,000 km of steppe wilderness?

The Mongol Derby

A former BDO 'Lakeside World Champion' (2006), which Dutch darts player regained his place on the PDC's ProTour for 2024/2025 after winning through this year's European QSchool?

Jelle Klaasen

Who is this Spanish national? Her family claimed her untimely death in 2013 was a result of neurological injuries sustained in a 2012 crash (in which she also lost an eye) when test-driving for the English-based Marussia F1 team? Later renamed Manor, the team folded in 2014.

Maria de VILLOTA

In chess, what name is given to the opening that starts with the moves 1. e4 e6, 2. d4 d5? The idea for black is to build a strong position in the centre of the board.

French Defence

Born on Réunion Island, which French figure skater finished in silver medal place three times in the World Championships (1993-1995), and became European champion five times (1991-1995), but is especially famous for being the only skater ever to land the (illegal) backflip on one foot, doing so during the 1998 Nagano Olympics?

Surya BONALY

Which men's cricketer scored 163 runs in Australia's first innings of the World Test Championship final against India at The Oval (London) in 2023 and was subsequently named Player of the Match?

Travis Head

What nickname is shared by the Brazilian football player who was striker in Brazil's team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup (see picture) and his compatriot who won the Champions' League twice in 2003 and 2007 with AC Milan, and who was blocked in the national team by Roberto Carlos?

Serginho

Born in 1983, this 'flyweight' from Manipur, India won her sixth world title in 2018 - the first female in boxing history to do so. Among many other achievements, she won a Bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics, and is also the subject of a 2014 Hindi feature film - its title being the name she's known by. Who is she?

Mary KOM

Sometimes called Dakshin Ganga or "Ganges of the South" because of its significance in religious and spiritual belief, which river in India runs 910 miles (1,464 km) from its origin in Maharashtra state to the Bay of Bengal?

Godavari

Two provincial capitals in Canada are named after the same person. One is the capital of British Columbia. Give the name of the other provincial capital city AND the name of its province

Regina, Saskatchewan

One of the most iconic train rides in the world, what is the name of the 1,850-mile long (nearly 3,000 km) passenger rail service between Darwin and Adelaide that runs through Australia's "Red Centre"?

The GHAN

FTIR is the most widely used form of infrared spectroscopy. It measures how much light a sample absorbs at each wavelength and is used in the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries to identify molecules. In this context, the letters IR stand for Infrared. What do the letters FT stand for, referring to the 19th-century French mathematician whose work was a basis for this technology?

Fourier Transform

If the mass of a neutron star surpasses a certain defined limit, the star will collapse into a black hole. This limit is known as the TOV Limit. In this context, the T stands for Tolman, the V for Volkoff, and the O refers to which physicist who is better known for other achievements?

OPPENHEIMER

Since the India-Bangladesh enclave exchange of 2015, there are just two double-enclaves (enclave within an enclave) left in the world. One is Baarle-Hertog / Baarle-Nassau where parts of The Netherlands are located within a Belgian enclave in The Netherlands. The other one is the enclave of Nahwa inside the enclave of Madha. These pieces of land belong to which TWO countries?

Oman and UAE

Taking its name from the Greek for "on top of" and "in an ordered manner", what is name of the method commonly used in the semiconductor industry that involves growing or depositing monocrystalline films on a crystalline substrate?

Epitaxy

Three brothers in 9th-century Persia were astronomers and engineers whose accomplishments included calculating a notably accurate value for the circumference of Earth. Their published texts, such as the 'Ketāb maʿrefat mesāḥat al-aškāl al-basīṭa wa’lkorīya' ('Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures') and 'Kitāb al-Ḥiyāl' ('Book of Ingenious Devices') were extensively used by medieval scholars and their inventions related to fluid pressures and valves remained unsurpassed until the 20th century. Their names were Moḥammad, Aḥmad, and Ḥasan, but they are best known by what collective name that refers to the name of their father?

BANU MUSA (Sons of Musa)

Facilities in Jebel Ali, UAE; Ras al Khair, Saudi Arabia; and Sorek, Israel, are among the world's largest facilities built to perform what function using either a Multistage Flash (MSF) or Reverse Osmosis (RO) process?

Water Desalination/Purification

Home to the Fraumünster, a medieval convent for daughters of the nobility, which major city in Switzerland ranks among the world's quietest urban areas today based on its low noise pollution and low rates of hearing loss among its population?

Zurich

Participating in a 2007 technology competition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), students from Makerere University in Uganda presented the first designs of their take on what type of product that will be manufactured by the Ugandan company Kiira (KMC) at a plant now being built in the Jinja Industrial and Business Park in Kagogwa village, Mawoito parish?

Electric Vehicles

Six independent nations are full founding members of TURKSOY, the International Organisation of Turkic Culture. They are: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkiye, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. An additional eight autonomous republics and regions have observer status in TURKSOY, including which Autonomous Territorial Unit of southern Moldova whose people are mainly of Turkish Christian heritage?

Gagauzia

Bordering the Savu Sea, the Special Administrative Region of Oé-Cusse-Ambeno (often known as Oecusse) is an exclave and Special Social Market Economic Zone (ZEESM) of which country?

Timor L'este

Recognizable by the long spikes on its vertebra, Amargasaurus is a genus of sauropod named for La Amarga Formation in which present-day South American country, where its fossilised remains were discovered in 1984?

Argentina

] A replica of a Goddard-Townsend block front chest of drawers--standing 36 to 40 feet tall (about 12 m)--is a landmark in the furniture-making city of High Point in which state in the southeastern United States?

North Carolina

The heaviest airplane in the world was the An-225 "Mriya" built in the 1980s to transport the Soviet Space Shuttle "Buran". The only operational Mriya aircraft was destroyed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. What aerospace company, based in Kyiv since the 1950s, designed and built the An-225 Mriya?

Antonov

Which term is used for whole grains that include the cereal germ and fiber-rich bran portion of the grain, as well as the endosperm?

Groats

Which rock band reunited in 1994 for its massively successful Hell Freezes Over Tour?

The Eagles

In 1991, which Ukrainian pole vaulter was the first to successfully clear 20 feet?

Sergey Bubka

What surname is shared by an NBC news anchor from 1956 to 1970, and the wife of singer Billy Joel from 1985 to 1994?

BRINKLEY

Spoken by Jason, “Bear witness where you go that the gods do not exist” is one translation of the final line in which play by Seneca the Younger?

Medea

Originally built for Walter Raleigh, what was the flagship of the English fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?

ARK ROYAL

Which English beat band featured Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few high-profile female drummers in the 1960s?

The Honeycombs

Former comedian Jimmy Morales was elected president in which Central America country?

Guatemala

Both the National World War I Museum and the American Jazz Museum are located in which U.S. city?

Kansas City, Missouri

Which female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature wrote five novels under the psuedonym John Sedges?

Pearl S Buck

Which part of the body may be referred to as the oxter?

Armpit

After 45 seasons on PBS, Sesame Street relocated to which premium cable station?

HBO

Boondock, bristol, and squop are terms used in what game?

Tiddlywinks

What is the rarest variety of wolf in the Minecraft video game?

SNOWY

Which female atristocrat of ancient Rome was married to Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio, and Mark Antony, and was the first Roman non-mythological woman to appear on Roman coins?

FULVIA

Which archipelago was the first Unesco world heritage site?

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

What branch of the US armed forces was created in 2019?

Space Force

If Liz Tilberis is first in sequence of four, Vogue UK editors and Alexandra Shulman is second, who is third and fourth? ONLY CONNECT

Edward Enninful Chioma Nnadi

What links: Cliff Booth; Cameron; Jane Gardner; Sonny Hooper; Colt Seavers?

Fictional stunt performers: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; The Stunt Man; Stuntwoman; Hooper; The Fall Guy.

Persian New Year name

Nowruz

ancient festival in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Dagestan and Turkey that is celebrated on the winter solstice. Read poetry (Hafez) and read Ferdowski's Shahnameh, pomegranates and watermelons eat. Date corresponds to December 20/21.

Yalda Night / Chelle Night

Which multi-voice singing is a traditional part of Albanian folk music and, as such, is included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. Labëria is particular well known for multipart singing; songs can have two, three, or four parts?

Iso-Polyphony

From "across ground", UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

Transhumance

UNESCO a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s, The tradition arose in the city of Oran, primarily among the poor. Traditionally sung by men, by the end of the 20th century, female singers had become common. Singers of this are called Cheb as opposed to Chaabi singers called Sheikhs.

Rai

Practices and knowledge linked to which single-string bowed instrument made of a calabash of the Tuareg communities of Algeria, Mali and Niger are on the UNESCO ICHL?

Imzad

On UNESCO ICHL, which drawings are an ideographic tradition known across eastern Angola, northwestern Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is mainly practiced by the Chokwe and Luchazi peoples.? These ideographs function as mnemonic devices to help remember proverbs, fables, games, riddles and animals, and to transmit knowledge.

Sona

On the UNESCO ICHL, a small wooden rowing boat traditionally built and used along the west coast of Norway, mostly of pine and only keel is okay?

Oselvar

Martinique's largest sporting event in late July is an annual sailing regatta whose standard craft is which traditional UNESCO ICHL vessel?

YOLE

An indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. About 2.3 million live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. UNESCO ICHL heritage of these communities since 2009.

Aymara

Tuuli epic poetry, the Tsuur flute, Biyelgee dance, instrument Limbe are all UNESCO ICHL of whcih country?

Mongolia

The Moorish epic T'heydinn is which country's UNESCO ICHL?

Mauritania

The collective fishing rite of the Sanke "Sanke mon" and the traditional harp "M'Bolon" are both UNESCO ICHL of which country?

Mali

Ala-kiyiz and Shyrdak, art of which country's traditional felt carpets which are UNESCO ICHL?

Kyrgyzstan

The sailing boats Lenj boats and the dramatic story telling Naqqali are both UNESCO ICHL designations of which country?

Iran

The Noken multifunctional knotted or woven bag and the dance Saman are both UNESCO ICHL designations of which country?

Indonesia

type of artistic drawing and lettering, with stylised lines and flowered, climbing plants, typically used in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is used to adorn all kinds of beloved objects: signs, taxis, lorries and even the old colectivos, Buenos Aires's buses.

Fileteado

The woodwind instrument Duduk, the carved memorial stele cross Khachkars, the epic Daredevils of Sassoun, the flatbread Lavash, traditional folk dance Kochari are all UNESCO ICHL designations of which country?

Armenia

The musical composition Mugham, the art of Ashiqs, carpet weaving, the plucked lute Tar, the headgear Kelaghayi, DOLMA food making, the Goychay Pomegranate Festival, are all designations for UNESCO ICHL for which country?

Azerbaijan

character in the folklore of the Muslim world from the Balkans to China, and a hero of humorous short stories and satirical anecdotes. appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but in many of which he is presented as a (holy) fool or as the butt of a joke.

NASREDDIN

Festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies. It is practiced most notably in Jamaica, The Bahamas and Belize, and historically in North Carolina and Miami, where there are significant settlements of West Indian people during the post-emancipation era.

Junkanoo

the specific repertoire of vocal music sung by the pearl divers of Eastern Arabia's coastal Gulf states, especially Bahrain and Kuwait. A lead singer is backed up by a chorus of accompanying singers and clapping. Most famous singer is Salem Allan.

Fijiri

Traditional art of Jamdani weaving, Baul songs, new year day Mangal Shobhajatra, Traditional art of Shital Pati weaving of Sylhet, rickshaw painting are all UNESCO ICHL designations of which country?

Bangladesh

A Belarus designation on UNESCO ICHL is Annual celebration in honor of Our Lady of _______, which village is missing? venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary enshrined within the Basilica of the Our Lady of Assumption in the village.

Budslau

annual festival held in city in Hainaut, Belgium, during the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday. Performers known as Gilles wear elaborate costumes in the national colours of red, black and yellow. During the parade, they throw oranges at the crowd. UNESCO designation.

Carnival of Binche

the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Home to Stella Artois. The city is home of the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer brewer

Leuven

West Flanders municipality which has UNESCO designation for their shrimpers on horseback.

Oostduinkerke

Stilt jousting is a UNESCO designated culture from which Belgian city? The stilt walkers are divided in two teams; the "Mélans" jousting on yellow and black stilts, who represent the old city, and the "Avresses" on red and white stilts, representing the new city and the suburbs.

Namur

UNESCO designated culture of Yoruba people: public display by colorful masks which combines art and ritual dance to amuse, educate and inspire worship. Celebrates “Mothers” (awon iya wa), a group that includes female ancestors and deities as well as the elderly women of the community, and the power and spiritual capacity these women have in society.

Gelede